What's your salary? 2022 edition
It's been an economically tumultuous year so I'm sure there's a lot to discuss. You guys know the drill by now, but I added an extra questions seeing considering the situation many of us seem to be in.
Age:
Education:
Years of experience:
Function:
Monthly salary (before taxes):
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):
Extra legal-advantages:
Location:
Sector/Industry:
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:
Previous editions:
Age: 31 (this one rises faster than my salary somehow)
Education: ASO (high school) and a professional course for my current job through VDAB
Years of experience: 0.5 working, 1 if you count the education too
Function: Bicycle mechanic (yes also ebikes lol)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2800
**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2000
Extra legal-advantages: None so far
Location: East Flanders
Sector/Industry: Uhhh bicycles
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I worked retail for 7 years, got paid absolute shit, worked shit hours and had to deal with the shittest of customers, colleagues and bosses and all it gave me was a shit burnout and massive anxiety. So right now I consider myself to be doing extremely well in contrast to my previous experiences. Life got a lot more expensive so I'm feeling the extra cash in my wallet less than I would like to, but I don't have any money problems and I'm kinda frugal so I'm happy with what I make. I just know that my job will probably get even more important post-apocalypse so it's all looking up from here.
Bro, you make 2K a month fixing bycicles? I barely make that and have been fixing Mercedessen for almost 5 years.
Are you working at an official Mercedes garage? Cause coincidentally I also work as a mechanic in a Mercedes garage. Only been working for 2 months and receive 2k netto a month. (additional taxes that I do not know of not included cause only just got out of school and got no knowledge of that yet). I think you're getting scammed, bruv.
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400 euro for 2021, people have to check their ebox if they earned less than 2500 euros bruto in 2021
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Hi, I got a jobbonus! Started working in Belgium June 2021, and got 300 (with the one-off 100 euro extra) for the 6 months!
Ah so I’m richer cuz I only got 133 😂. And I graduated in 2010 so you’re still better of than me haha Edit:T9
Ah so I’m richer cuz I only got 133
<3
Yes you are :D I wish you (and I mean this in the best way possible) no more jobbonus in the future, and you not even missing/needing that kind of extra. :)
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Wait, they already paid this? Didn't get mine yet. And yes I filled in my bank details.
Yeah I got mine.
I’m still waiting for my aanslagbiljet though, which I need urgently to show the Dutch authorities to proof I can’t pay €1000 per month for my student loan 😰
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Age: 35
Education: Master degree in Law
Years of experience: 10
Function: lawyer
Monthly salary (before taxes): don't know
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3500
Extra legal-advantages: maaltijd cheques, insurances, MIVB and NMBS abonnement
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Public administration
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes...
how can you know your net but not gross? even as independent it should be the other way around
In public administration your salary is set by baremas. These are automatically adjusted for inflation and experience, so it's not uncommon to lose track of the evolution of your gross salary (but it can easily be found on your fiche de paie)
In public administration your salary is set by baremas. These are automatically adjusted for inflation and experience, so it's not uncommon to lose track of the evolution of your gross salary (but it can easily be found on your fiche de paie)
Same for me. Why would I even care about the "before taxes" amount unless some administration asks for it? I work for a living, not to fill taxes :) And literal taxes prefill it so not really needed in everyday management.
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Age: 27
Education: Bachelor of Engineering (5years)
Years of experience: 3
Function: Software developer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2900
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000
Extra legal-advantages: Tickets repas 8 euros and train train subscription plus benefits that ammount to maybe 100 euros a month.
Location: Mechelen
Sector/Industry: Software solutions
Are you getting managing/content with your current income: pretty much. I'm saving up 300 euros a month while not depriving myself of stuff. And with the coming indexation I expect to be happier.
Age: 29
Education: A2
Years of experience: 1
Function: (junior) network engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2650
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1980
Extra legal-advantages: tickets repas 8 euro, car + fuelcard, phone with unlimited data, laptop & home internet expense
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income:still with parents, saving minimum 1000 euro's a month
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Age: 25
Education: Uni masters degree (mechanical engineering)
Years of experience: 0.5
Function: design engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2700
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1850
Extra legal-advantages: 140 food-cheques, company car, company fuel, hospital insurance/
Location: Liege
Sector/Industry: aerospace
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Currently yes. As the income is new to me, I find myself living at a living standard I never had before. However I am lucky because my rent is very (!) low (200€/monthly) and energy costs are also quite low (although increased since the beginning of the year).
Rent is so low because I share a small house with two other people. So 600€/monthly for the small house divided among 3 people. Still very price for a small house.
Honestly, I am quite shocked at how people get the bare minimum with a masters degree. A co-worker is in the same situation, without a company car and I can't understand. Even a PhD told me he gets 2.5k€ net, it is insane.
My net is higher without a bachelor's degree, just a year of training last year.
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Age:
38
Education: MA
(African
Linguistics)
Years
of experience:
graduated in 2010,
worked in very
different fields,
current job since
2015
Function:
customer care in
multiple
languages
Monthly
salary (before
taxes): current 2
day regime 1122
EUR
Monthly
salary (after taxes,
including additional
net salary): 1023
EUR
Extra
legal-advantages:
maaltijdscheques,
hospitalisatie
kids
Location:
Antwerp
Sector/Industry:
brokery/insurance
Are
you getting
managing/content
with your current
income?: i get sick
leave paid by CM and
tijdskrediet to get
a full income and
alimentatie from the
government (DAVO) in
the absence of a
paying father, also
my kinderbijslag is
higher because of my
low income.
combine all that with r/YNAB and i'm rocking this.
Have to admit it's the first time ever I hear about a MA in African Linguistics. Sounds great. Are you specialized in a set of particular languages?
Nah, taalkunde in Belgium is not like in the Netherlands. I learned how the system works. Enabling me to go to a remote location and figure out the language system to write a grammar book. As you can guess my fellow students were into bible translation 😂. I did focus on kirundi/kinyarwanda out of interest.
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As a self-employed accountant, i can say my net wage is 700/month. But it's abit more complicated than that, really...
Does this mean you're licensed or an intern at the ITAA?
Was scrolling for accountant
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Age: 30
Education: Professional Bachelor Teacher (English - Music)
Years of experience: 6
Function: English Teacher
Monthly salary (before taxes): +- €3000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2165
Extra legal-advantages: NMBS pass for the 10 months I work
Location: Kapellen
Sector/Industry: Education
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Eh, considering I want to buy an appartment as a single person and can't save the way I really want, I'd say the answer here is bordering on "no".
Age: 24
Education: KSO -> Bachelor interactive multimedia design
Years of experience: current workfield : 0.8 year (started in march)
Function: Full stack developer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2279€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1874€
Extra legal-advantages: company car - fuelcard - laptop - mobile phone - mobile subscription - telework compensation
Location: Willebroek / Breda
Sector/Industry: IT sector
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm living with my partner so we for sure are managing, maybe we spend too much on "fun" stuff as we are barely saving anything every month (600 total) . i would love to earn a bit more as i really feel like i could use a 4/5th week (i feel like i dont have enough time to pursue hobbies or have any side projects) but overall i couldnt really complain.
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Age: 24
Education: HS (TSO via a CVO) degree with some uni classes but never finished those
Years of experience: 3.5
Function: IT Support
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3150
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2100 +250-300 extra every few months for being on call
Extra legal-advantages: Pension fund, public transport and bicycle lease, hospitalisation insurance, guarenteed income insurance, etc
Location: Brussels Capital Region
Sector/Industry: Healthcare IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Considering my background I consider myself extremely fortunate. I know plenty of people who are struggling and am glad to be able to pay the bills and not having to worry about that much. Living under a roof with three other incomes also helps loads.
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Age: 45
Education: Master in Communication Sciences KULeuven
Years of experience: 22
Function: Marketing director
Monthly salary (before taxes): 10.057
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 4.886
Extra legal-advantages: Company car, fuel card, hospitalisation, group insurance, bonus system (can earn up to 30% of annual salary on top), BYOD allowance, home working allowance
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: US-headquartered multinational
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Super satisfied. Started at this company about 15 years ago at half the salary and no company car - and gradually moved up the ranks. Big bump last year since getting the promotion to director. I could make even more by moving to the US HQ (up to 2xgross, 3xnet) but I prefer staying in Belgium. My US colleagues have a lot more money in their pocket, but have to spend it all on housing, health, education, entertainment, etc. I'm more content to live in a country that takes care of its citizens, even if it means paying high taxes. I have teenage kids of which one has health issues - I'm blessed to be able to deal with this in Belgium. Also, the higher education choices they'll make soon are not going to financially cripple me or them. I'm very fortunate to be in this position, don't mind sharing my wealth. I am locked in a golden cage now though - recently looked at a superinteresting director position at a local Belgian company and the monthly salary was 5K to 6K max. I'll stay where I am for now.
I misread and thought you were 22 and I was ready to throw down. :’)
To be precise, I looked up my starting salary in the system. I started at this company in an online marketing position (individual contributor) for an annual salary of €59K gross in 2008. I gradually grew to €100K annual gross by 2021 - and then this year came a big jump since becoming director. The way this company is set up, there's a huge jump when being promoted to director.
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While true, I do think it's important for people to talk about wages.
Holy shit, Belgian companies are really ripping of their junior IT people and engineers. I have a friend in Germany who recently became a primary school teacher (not civil servant) and she gets more net per month than some of the people in this thread. And no, she is not living in Munich.
the only way to make real money in IT in Belgium is to become freelance. I am not posting in this thread because people would simply think I am bragging but when I see not only the salaries of the juniors but also the seniors then yes the only conclusion is that Belgian ITers get ripped hard.
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Belgians are just really afraid to push for higher wages, it's a cultural problem. Almost none of my friends want to ask for a raise even though they work a lot, do their job well but still complain that they have financial difficulties.
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Meanwhile me: programmer with 5 years experience in a school I get paid as a teacher because i am one on paper
How much does a teacher earn in germany?
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Honestly me reading, let alone making these posts should constitute as self-harm...
Reading this thread perhaps the mistake I made was not dropping out of Secondary/University.
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Eh, i like seeing how far behind my government paycheck puts me. Though i recall some guy posting a 10k after taxes wage at some point which made me go: fml.
If the poster is truthful, that’s a major outlier. Don’t make any conclusions based on it.
A big “if” on an anonymous internet site…
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Age: 23
Education: Master Computer Science
Years of experience:0
Function: Developer (Cobol/.Net)
Monthly salary (before taxes):3300
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2100
Extra legal-advantages: Meal/eco voucher, end of year/sector bonus, smartphone, public transport, internet, insurance and insurance related perks,...
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Insurance/Banking
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. Especially considering it is an education track.
2100 for developping
in cobol ??
edit
: and a master as
well ... damn
With 0 experience though. COBOL pays really well, but only to experienced people…
No experience and basically fixed starter wage for these tracks. Cobol is pretty easy for junior stuff. Experienced cobol developers is where the shortage is.
You have a nice salary. Don’t let this sub make you believe otherwise.
More than happy with what I get, smart enough to realise that this thread is skewed towards high earners. And I am able to do basically all what I want with this income so I am satisfied.
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Age: 33
Education: Bachelor degree
Years of experience: 11 years (current job 6 years)
Function: CAM Investment Fund Admin Services
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4,200
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2,550
Extra legal-advantages: Yearly performance and collective bonuses of about 3,500 gross; monthly internet&phone subscription of 70 gross (only ATN deducted); teleworking allowance of about 40 gross; 13th month & holiday pay.
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Finance
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes I feel very happy and appreciated by my colleagues and superiors. Been working at my current employer for about 6 years.
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Age: 43
Education: high school
Years of experience: 5
Function: security technician
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3200€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2750€
Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel card, laptop, gsm, 13th month, profit participation, eco chèques, hospital insurance, pension fund
Location: Belgium, nationwide
Sector/Industry: Security/tech
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, very much
How high is your net allowance? Must be like 700 euros to get to that net salary.
You get a company car + fuel card and you also get your km's payed?
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Age: 32
Education: Master degree in Art History
Years of experience: 8
Function: Logistics Manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2350€
Extra legal-advantages: maaltijd cheques,,laptop, smartphone, bedrijfswagen met tankkaart
Location: Zeebrugge
Sector/Industry: Port Logistics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
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What's your salary? 2022 edition
Age: 36
Education: Master of Sociology + Advanced Master of European Studies
Years of experience: 11
Function: Data Analyst
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000 EUROS [NOTE I WORK 80% BECAUSE I WANT TO]
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2050 EUROS
Extra legal-advantages: hospital insurance, 13th month, success bonus if company objectives achieved, maaltijd cheques, homework payment
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Professional Training
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I honestly do not understand this question but other people are talking about the work environment so here goes : love the colleagues, hard top down management, lots of work and crazy work rythm (but I stopped doing any unpaid over hours and started working 80% and life is much better).
You don’t have to yell at us about working 80%! That sounds really nice.
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Age: 30
Education: Master of Laws
Years of experience: 6
Function: consultant financial sector
Monthly salary (before taxes): €4300
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €3500 (2700 net + 200 representation allowance + 600 net for housing but have to hand in my car for it). 15% of wage paid in intellectual property rights for lower taxes.
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, ecocheques, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, mobile phone, performance bonus.
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Financial sector
Are you getting managing/content with your current salary?: I just got this job so I expect to be happy for the foreseeable future
I know I’m in for a world of hurt once that advantageous tax rule gets abolished :s
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Age: 30
Education: Master of Arts
Years of experience: 5
Function: Customer Service Specialist B2B
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2082
Extra legal-advantages: €160 meal vouchers/month, ecocheques, commute, group insurance, hospital insurance for everyone living with me, individual and group bonuses
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: Construction
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, the pay could be better, but I have a lot of freedom, my manager's got my back, I can WFH whenever I want, I can usually take some time off pretty last minute for my own side hustle... can't complain.
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Age: 41
Education: College (multimedia and communications tech)
Years of experience: 20-ish
Function: digital communications manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): +/- 4000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +/- 3000
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers (8€ day)
Location: remote (I work for an organisation based in UK)
Sector/Industry: NGO
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yeah
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Age: 39
Education: Master
Years of experience: 13ish
Function: Teacher of Dutch for non native speakers + student counselor (working 4/5 now)
Monthly salary (before taxes):?
**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2250
Extra legal-advantages: compensation for biking to work, public transport compensation
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Education
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I feel lucky to do a job I love, even though the commute takes me 1,5h one way (and it has nothing to do with my degree) . Compared to other sectors I don't make so much but I feel it's enough. Pension should be good too so, that's a plus.
Just to lower the average of this sub, lol:
Age: 27
Education: Bachelors, Law; currently enrolled in Leuven for Master in Economics, Business, Management;
Years of experience: 5
Function: Projects Assistant (but really Project Coordinator)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2450
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150
Extra legal-advantages: eco chèque, work for home allowance, transport, phone - all included in the above except DKV dental insurance and hospitalisation, and end of year bonus around 1-2k
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: consultancy, renewable energies
Yes to managing content
RIP my career
I wouldn't consider this sub average or median. I think there's a lot of people earning 1700-1800 lurking around not feeling like posting their lower, but still okay income. Most commenters actually have a degree as well. This helps. I think everyone earning 2000+ net can consider their income as "good". You can live by yourself with that money and still have leftovers at the end of the month.
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Age: 28
Education: Master of Law
Years of experience: 5
Function: In-house legal counsel
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4.040,67 €
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.516,37 €
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, phone and phone plan, lots of WFH, 35 days paid vacation, tenured
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Government
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm quite happy with my current income for my age / experience, but I've taken up a lot of extra responsibilities and have thus pushed for a promotion which should (fingers crossed) take place sometime next year. This should see my salary before taxes raise an extra 1.25k.
Did you start your career as a lawyer before getting hired as inhouse legal counsel? I feel like that's a requirement
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Age: 25
Education: Secundary
Years of experience: 2
Function: Financial Support/Planning
Monthly salary (before taxes): around 2600
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2080 + 120 meal vouchers, overtime & various compensation paid out.
Extra legal-advantages: A whole lotta discount codes, work laptop
Location: Brussels (but usually work from home)
Sector/Industry: Gov
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Not at all, pushing for promotions asap.
Age: 31
Education: Two professional bachelors
Years of experience: 6
Function: Data engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 1800
**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2050
Extra legal-advantages: Car, Maaltijdcheques, work from home bonus, etc
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm a freelancer so I don't give myself the biggest salary, but I live a good life like this
netto benefits are excluded, also a big part of it is copyrights compensation
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Age: 32
Education: highest education is 1 year specialisation master in economics and business
Years of experience: 4.5 in this industry/role, otherwise 9
Function: Senior Business Architect
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3588
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2490
Extra legal-advantages:
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paid internet at home
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phone + phone credit
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company car
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MIVB/STIB yearly card
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meal vouchers
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eco cheques
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: IT Consultancy
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm not sure what this last question means and I didn't read other answers for inspiration. Might edit later. EDIT: I guess the "by" in getting by which is missing really confused me. I'm very happy with my current salary and job content, but the hours at my company are crazy so I'm looking to change. I actually have two offers and the highest is 4400 bruto and 2869 neto with similar benefits to what I have now. I was not after the salary increase, not such a big one at least, but IT talent is scarce, so they're willing to offer quite a bit.
If your employer tells you you're a senior architect, they're either buttering you up with a fancy title or are greatly underpaying you.
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Age: 28
Education: HBO5 verpleegkunde
Experience: 3 years
Monthly before tax: 2724
Monthy after tax: 2220
Extra legal advantages: Hospitalization verzekering, maaltijdcheques 7 EUR per gewerkte dag, KM + fiets vergoeding, 10 dagen extra verlof, ecocheques, eindejaarspremie.
Location: Zuiderkempen
Sector: healthcare
Are you content? Yes but more is always better
Age: 26
Education: Bachelor in Logistics management
Years of experience: 2
Function: Operations care
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2800
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000, including bonusses around 2150
Extra legal-advantages: Luncheon vouchers, car, hospitalization insurance, 13th month
Location: Machelen, Brucargo
Sector/Industry: Logistics sector, airfreight
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Managing is easy because I still live with my parents. I pay them 250 rent every month. I’m also quite happy with my current salary.
Age: 28
Education: A2
Years of experience: 6
Function: Support Engineer (2nd line)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3300
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2100
Extra legal-advantages: Company car, fuel card, eco & maaltijdcheques, pension fund, hospitalisation insurance
Location: Flanders
Sector/Industry: IT consultancy
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:
I have bought a house on my own this year and i still can set 600 euros each month aside.
The energy crisis and inflation doesn't affect me that much
I will also be promoted in 2023 and will receive 4000 euros gross then, so i definitely can't complain
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Age: 28
Education: bso verzorging.
1 year of experience
Function: technician pest control
Before taxes 2250.
After: 1900-2000euro
Extra legal advantages: car (with way too much ads on)+ tankkaart for private use too. Meal vouchers, 13month, vacation money. Flexible hours, i can choose when i start/stop. No commute as my hours start/stop when i leave/reach home.
Location: provincie Antwerp
Bigger pay would be welcome but we manage.
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Age: 27
Education: University drop-out
Years of experience: 4,5
Function: Forwarder
Monthly salary (before taxes): €3500
Monthly net salary: ca €2250
Extra-legal: health insurance, pension, maaltijdcheques
Location: Antwerp
Sector: logistics
Managing perfectly fine since i started co-housing with a friend. Before that? So-so...
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Age: 24
Education: Master of Science in Computer Science
Years of experience: 0
Function: Software developer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3350
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150
Extra legal-advantages: Maaltijdcheques, km vergoeding, internet and mobile paid for me
Location: Kortrijk
Sector/Industry: IT
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Age: 34
Education: Bachelor IT
Years of experience: 10
Function: Integration Architect
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5600
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3560
Extra legal-advantages: electric car + installation of charging station (Polestar 2/Tesla M3/BMW i4), mobile + subscription, eco cheques, meal cheques, yearly bonus (4000 to 15000 brut) which can be partially cashed out through warrants and stock options, pension, NMBS/MIVB/De Lijn/Tec subscription, intellectual property scheme, representation allowance, daily allowance, home working allowance, bicycle commute compensation, several insurances.
Location: Brussels based, but working across Europe
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. I really can't complain financially.
I just checked, it includes representation allowance and the intellectual property tax scheme. Single by the way.. no kids.
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Age: 29
Education: A2 + 7th specialisation year
Years of experience: 5
Function: Operator
Monthly salary (before taxes): 7485
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3870 (My salary varies a lot between 3000-4000 due to overtime(we do alot of OTs) and unpaid leave(Shift work gets compensated into days off that aren't paid))
Extra legal-advantages: Meal-Vouchers + Eco cheques.
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Chemical Industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I don't think I have much to complain after being a drop out of school and doing a 7th year when I was 24 year old, I am extremely happy with what I have now.
I'm guessing he works in shifts and works a lot of nights/weekends. That'll make the pay go up fast, but when you're young why not? Also: the chemical industry is usually very well paid.
You are correct, I work 7/7 (not counting vacation days) in 3 shifts (Early, Late, Night)
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As an "Operator" Function I'm in control of my assigned "Line" (Line is usualy referred to a production line sinds most chemical industries have more then 1).
Basicly what that means is that it's my responsibility to ensure that my Line is working fine and has no issues, keep in mind that these machines work 24/7 around the clock so a problem is inevitable.
Besides the basic Operator function I also act as a safety person on my Line which means if I see people working on my line and if I think they are not following safety protocols or working on something that could risk their health I am allowed to deny them the work and then I have to send them to my foreman which has the last say if they can continue or not.
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Age: 31
Education: Bachelors, Masters and postgraduate
Function: Library Employee
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3200ish
Monthly salary: 2182
Extra-legal: eco vouchers, hospitalisatieverzekering, nmbs + lijn abonnement
Location: Vlaams-Brabant
Sector: Education
Are you managing?: barely, but a 1000/month extra would be nice
(On mobile)
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Age: 23
Education: Professional Bachelor
Years of experience: 1.5
Function: HSE (Health Safety Environment) Advisor
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3600
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2250
Extra legal advantages: hospitalisation insurance, pension plan, 13th month, 14th month, yearly bonus, company car + fuel card, phone, laptop
Location: Multiple sites in Belgium and the Netherlands but head office in Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Logistics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Recently changed company and got a big raise, definitely happy with this
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Age: 35
Education: Bachelor IT
Years of experience: 13
Function: Support coördinator / operation manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2800
Extra legal-advantages: car + fuel, cellphone + plan, eco cheques, consumption cheques, yearly bonus (2.000 net), pension, 13th month,.. oh and yearly 5day trip (Egypt, ski,..)
Location: Leuven
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age:
33
Education:
academic master in
psycholinguistics
Years
of
experience:
1
Function:
Dead end job at
NMBS/SNCB as a clerk
ordering
shoes
Monthly
salary
(after taxes, I
don't know the gross
amount):
2050
Sector:
NMBS (I consider
this a sector of its
own)
Content?
Sure, considering
how hard I have to
work for it.
Studying Applied IT
though, so I hope my
salary will change
for the better.
Age: 51
Education: high school
Years of experience: 30
Function: financial analyst
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5750
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2900
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, healthcare insurance, bonus
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Textile
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: very happy
Age: 24
Education: Professional Bachelor
Years of experience: 2
Function: Property Manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2020
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1900
Extra legal-advantages: Meal Vouchers (€5), Fuel Card
Location: Leuven
Sector/Industry: Real Estate
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: No not really, I’m not struggling since I was able to buy a house with my partner this year, but for the hours I’m working and the stress that comes with it, I feel underpayed, especially when comparing my pay with other similar companies.
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Age: 32
Education: None, never finished highschool
Years of Experience: none, started my business being self-taught. Dropped out of highschool in 5th grade, messed up my life due to drug addiction. Turned it around by age 24 and started my business freelancing.
Function: data analyst / programmer
Monthly salary (before taxes): Around 6000 - 8000 EUR
Monthly salary (after taxes): around 2800 EUR
Extra legal-advantages: company car, I'm self employed, so bought it myself for the tax-break & all the possible pension plans you can get as an eenmanszaak
Location: Around Leuven
Sector: IT
Am I managing/happy with my income: Yeah it's more than enough to do whatever I want and to save. Currently investing a lot into ETF's to get a decent pension when I'm retired (thanks r/BeFire) and I get to travel a lot. It was extremely hard to get to this point, before I started working as a freelancer, I did a lot of crappy jobs, was guided by the OCMW, VDAB, it was all bullshit. I finally made a clickn thinking that I would never want to experience that again, so I started teaching myself how to program (this was always an interest of mine, I knew how to write bash scripts etc, just not real programming) and I got a gig at Microsoft. Found more clients and now I'm at a point where I have more work than I can handle.
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Age: 30
Education: master na master in de huisartsgeneeskunde (9 jaar in totaal)
Years of experience: 1
Function: huisarts
Monthly salary (before taxes): 9000-10 000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3000-4000
Extra legal-advantages: gratis hapjes en drankjes op bijscholingen
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: Gezondheidszorg
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: ja
Once you grt to the 4k mark, where the highest tax scale starts, its indeed ridiculous.
And once you reach max yearly amount for pension (+-62k) it’s disgusting as you arent really getting anything back
All while making decent money, but nothing that seriously high
I feel you 100%, the unlimited social contributions based on your income while your pension is artificially capped is the biggest scam when it comes to being an employee. And for that you get some of the lowest pensions in Western-Europa and Scandinavia.
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Thank you for choosing to be a huisarts. You are the first line. It is often ungrateful and very intense work based on the testimonials of house doctors around me and to me severely underpaid especially when compared to surgeons and anesthesiologists.
I hope you have a BV and that 3k is your official wage and you're waiting to cash out the rest that's in the company more efficiently. Else you should talk to an accountant.
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Age:
28
Education:
Master of sciences
Years of experience:
2
Function:
Logistics
Monthly salary (before taxes):
~4000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):
~2600
Extra legal-advantages:
13th month, maaltijdcheques, ecocheques.
Location:
Antwerp
Sector/Industry:
Logistics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:
Yeah, can't complain. Kind of rolled into this and it's not really my dream job but the pay is too high to look for something else.
Age: 34
Education: Bachelor (arts)
Years of experience: 5
Function: Software testing consultant
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2635
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2083
Extra legal-advantages: Car, fuel card, phone subscription, meal vouchers, author's rights, net allowance, 13th month, profit sharing, eco vouchers, hospital insurance, ambulante insurance, invalidity (also temporary) insurance, extra pension
Location: Leuven
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes!
Age: 25
Education: Bachelor Graphic Design and Digital Media
Years of experience: 3
Function: Front-end developer, Social Media Manager, .. creative-everything
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2690
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1780 (I work 4 days a week at company, 1 day as freelancer)
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers 8 euro/day, 2 days a week WFH 20 euro/month, KM compensation 5,5 euro/day
Location: Bruges
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Should I be? I don't know anymore. I don't have a lot to save.
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Age: 33
Education: Master in Software Engineering
Years of experience: 9
Function: Freelance Product Owner
Monthly salary (before taxes): Around 13.000-14.000€/month (VAT Excl.)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Around 5500€/month (prorated to 13,92x/year)
Extra legal-advantages: (from my own company) Car + Phone + Internet subscription + Phone subscription + Fuel card + Meal & Eco vouchers + Complementary pension
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Financial Services Industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. I'm paid roughly 2k€ more per month than when I was an employee. On top of that I have much more liberty to define my remuneration package how I want to. But don't forget that as a Freelance there always is a risk of not having revenue, not finding a new mission, not being able to adapt your invoices to inflation etc. And it can therefore become more stressful sometimes.
Age: 30
Education: Master Computer Science Engineering (Burgerlijk Ingenieur)
Years of experience: 2,5
Function: Data Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 10.400
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 5.900
Extra legal-advantages: /
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Energy
Are you managing/content with your current income?: Of course happy where I am right now. Worked hard to get here. Started 2 years ago with a salary of 3K (before taxes) but I learned to jump ship fast and learned the basics of negotiating salary, how the labour market works etc.
I'm wondering the same thing. How can you go from 3k to over 10k in 2.5 years. How many different companies? Working for an international company?
Yes working freelance now. Switched companies for the 3rd time this summer. Yes, international company.
There is a risk/compensation trade-off you have to make compared to employment. Although freelance doesn't come with 'extra legal advantages', there are of course other advantages ("kosten inbrengen"). Sad reality but our industry encourages switching companies to renegotiate your actual market value.
How to move from 3k to 10k? Couple of things:
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Computer Science... no way around it. It's a very booming business.
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Startups will always pay shit. They're actively trying not to die as a company. Want to make money? Research the companies you're applying to. (eg glassdoor.com).
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Labour market in a capitalistic system means you are not paid for how 'essential' or 'hard working' you are, but you are paid based on simple supply and demand: how bad companies really want this labour, and how many other people are offering it. I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn, understand what the market is asking, talk to many recruiters, made some of them my friends. They understand the market better than anyone. I continuously take extra courses in my field that are extremely valued and under-supplied, driving up my own value. For example: many computer scientists go in AI. AI is so hyped they collectively drive their own value down, competing with "booth camp" engineers and every other scientific degree (mathematicians, physicists etc) that jumps the same market.
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No one likes finding a new job. The process is stressful and time-demanding. That's an opportunity. If no one likes finding a new job, companies are using that against you. There's value in becoming good at finding a new job. It's a completely unique skill unrelated to your schooling. Learn it anyway.
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Interviewing is a skill to be learned. I took a lot of time understanding the process, resume, technical selection rounds etc. I switched companies 3 times but I've interviewed at 23 and applied at 200+. I'm actually just always accepting interviews, even today, just to get the interview experience and feel the market.
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Hiring managers don't only look for raw skill, they very actively look for social people who will take ownership of projects and are fun to work with.
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Two weeks before I signed my current contract, another company HR manager was screaming at me through the phone for asking 75K with 2 years of experience. 'Completely unacceptable' he said. If you don't know/research your market value, don't be surprised to be underpaid.
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Yes, you can play out companies against one another and let them outbid each other.
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A company pays you in cash but equally importantly in experience. I always knew the experience I was going to get when signing a contract was going to significantly bump up my value a year later.
Damn that’s interesting. I can tell you are a guy that knows what he’s doing. I’m still at Uni but I’ve saved your comment for later, that’s for sure.
I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn, understand what the market is asking, talk to many recruiters, made some of them my friends.
Do you have any
sources that you can
share with us that
taught you how to
think like this or
just places where
you learned these
things?
Maybe
even Youtube
channels, blogs,
books?
Very
helpful! Thanks for
sharing!
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Started 2 years ago with a salary of 3K (before taxes) but I learned to jump ship fast and learned the basics of negotiating salary, how the labour market works etc.
Do you have some tips to share? Asking for a friend.
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Age: 36
Education: ASO (high school)
Years of experience: 15 years in the same field.
Function: Category Manager CAPEX
Monthly salary (before taxes): 6324
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3400
Extra legal-advantages: Car, fuel card, laptop, cell phone, internet and mobile contract paid for, meal vouchers 8 EUR/day, group insurance, pension plan, participation in management bonus plan. Compensation for electricity usage when working at home (80 EUR/month)
Location: West Flanders
Sector/Industry: Textile
Are you getting managing/content with your current income? Yes, with ease.
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Aight, let me probably be the first to state how little I made a few months ago (vs. currently)
Age: then 21, now 22
Education: industrial product design with a minor in engineering + high school electromechanics
Years of experience: just over 1 now
Function: then carbon fibre frabricator (plus minor design), now CAD designer
Monthly salary (before taxes): then 1700, now 2600
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): then roughly 1500, now 2100-2150 including fietsvergoeding and extra 150 net
Extra legal-advantages: then none, now maaltijdcheques (€160/mo) & groepsverzekering. I also just signed the lease for a cargo bike
Location: Ghent
Sector/Industry: then carbon fibre boat building, now sustainable packaging
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Then: no not really, I was in a lotta money related stress because I still wanted to save up for a house one day, and moving out isn't cheap. Now: yes totally. I save a lotta money each month and although I'm still careful with money (I also grew up in a family with not much money), I don't have to count every single little thing I spend money on like I used to.
Age: 31
Education: B.A. in Sociology, M.A. in International Relations, and some Data Science.
Years of experience: 2 in field, 5 out field.
Function: Project Manager.
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2698€ (28h/week)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000€ (28h/week)
Extra legal-advantages: 120 food vouchers
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: NGO
Are you getting managing/content with your current income? : Pretty much yeah. Plenty of free time and decent salary, can't complain.
Age: 26
Education: TSO, only highschool
Years of experience: 7
Function: Sales
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5000-8000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2800-4000
Extra legal-advantages: car, phone, fuel card, healt insurance, 13th month bonus.
Location: Leuven
Sector/Industry: Automotive (cars)
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Extremely satisfied, i know i am lucky to be in this position at my age.
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Throwaway because people from real life might recognize my username.
Age: 24
Education: Master's in Biology
Years of experience: almost 1! So 0 on paper.
Function: PhD student
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2375
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2375 (technically still a "student")
Extra legal-advantages: free work bike, even an electrical one if you wish.
Commute costs compensation and cycling compensation
~ €200 per year ecocheques
Idk about insurances or pension
Location: Leuven
Sector/Industry: Academics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes perfectly fine, combined with my partner's income. But part of that is bc we were able to buy an apt with relatively low mortgage, thanks to my grandparents' financial help. I realize that I am very lucky to have that and otherwise it might not have been so easy.
You can get cheap hospitalisatie via KU Leuven. And you can’t do “pensioensparen” because you don’t pay taxes (afaik)
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Age: 31
Education: ASO degree, dropped out of uni
Years of experience: 8
Function: Support Engineer Benelux
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2850ish (before indexation next month)
**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**Currently 2280ish, will probably drop a bit once it's adjusted for the fact that my wife is now working
Extra legal-advantages: Company car + fuel card (Europe), hospitalisation insurance for family, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, smartphone + subscription, 100eur net expense compensation
Location: Gent
Sector/Industry: Construction supply
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Had a difficult financial month (cat related mishaps) so could be better. Now that my wife is working we'll have a lot more breathing room financially though.
Age: 39
Education: Civil engineer
Years of experience: 16
Function: Data & Innovation
Monthly salary (before taxes): 7285 €
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~3800 €
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Railpass 1st class Benelux + free tickets in Europe, no car, job safety, automatic indexation
Location: Charleroi
Sector/Industry: Railway Infrastructure
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, I don't need to think too much about money and I like my job.
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Age: 25
Education: 7th year Sen-Se
Years of experience: 2.5
Function: Chemical process operator
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5313.46 euro
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3286.23 euro
Extra legal-advantages: options for leasing, shiftwork so lots of vacation days, maaltijdcheque, pension fund, bustransport from/to work.
Location: Port of Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Chemical
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, able to save around 1.2k each month while renting an appartement
Age: 25
Education: Civil Engineering + Complementary Big Data Master
Years of experience: 2
Function: Project Officer (More Management of the ERP system of the company)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4574
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2650 + 20 for internet
Extra legal-advantages: Cafetaria Plan (Sacrifice Bruto to gain Car) + Free meal at work restaurant (no meal vouchers) + Stib/trein abonnement + 35 days off + GSM + Discount on fuel
Location: Bruxelles
Sector/Industry: Petrol industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, I feel extremely lucky, the content is challenging, managing is young and supportive, but I must say a lot of work and responsibilities for my age. Need to be perfectly tri-lingual, but my written dutch still needs improvements.
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Age: 28
Education: Master in elektromechanical engineering
Years of experience: 3.5
Function: Calculator
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3100
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1970
Extra legal-advantages: company car, gas, mealcheques
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: Metal
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am managing but find it very low. Don't understand why my netto is that low as some people with 2200 bruto can also earn 2000 netto. Would like to have more as a master with a few years of experience.
Would agree, imho this is underpaid. Solution is quite easy:look around
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Age: 38
Education: bachelor IT
Years of experience: 16
Function: IT Director
Monthly salary (before taxes): 9100
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 4700
Extra legal-advantages: meal and eco vouchers, hospitalization insurance, group insurance, company car + fuel card, mobile phone + subscription, laptop, ipad + subscription, yearly bonus,
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Pharmacy
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: just about :)
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Age: 26
Education: Master Computer (Engineering) Science
Years of experience: 3
Function: Technical consultant, currently doing Cloud DevOps
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2850
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150
Extra legal-advantages: Car, fuel pass, meal vouchers, eco cheques, profit sharing bonus. My company chose to be careful not to hand out too many auteursrechten (4%)
Location: Leuven-Brussels
Sector/Industry: IT consulting
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, cohousing in an appartment goes pretty well. Just missed the boat on the super cheap mortgages though. Although I do get a good net and good benefits, the low brut means I will not get a lot of benefit from the indexation now.
Age: 50
Education: Masters in hard sciences
Years of experience: 28
Function: Senior Advisor
Monthly salary (before taxes): ~ €10.000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~ €5.000
Extra legal-advantages: nearly none
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Government - ICT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Sure
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Age: 34 Education: MBA Years of experience: 12 Function: Senior Communications Manager Monthly salary (before taxes): 7413€ Salary after tax: 4070€ - including representation fees 350€ Extra-legal advantages: mobile phone, company car, lunch checks, hospitalization insurance, dental insurance, eco checks, performance bonus, representation fee 200€, dry cleaning fee 50€, teleworking expenses 100€ Location: Brussels Sector: Public relations
Am I content? Yes - but I can't really leave this job..Interviewed for a director level. They barely paid 5.5k gross.... I can never go back working for so little money but on the other hand this means I will never leave this job...
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Age: 25
Education: Master of History
Years of experience: more or less 1,5 years
Function: administrative assistant
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2266,59
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1862,45
Extra legal-advantages: Meal checks (€8), hospitalisation insurance, probably some minor stuff I've forgotten. No salary cars or anything like that.
Location: Flemish Ardennes, Oost-Vlaanderen
Sector/Industry: Local government/culture
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I wouldn't say no to a raise, but I certainly can't claim I'm struggling. Ask me again in a couple of months when I've moved out and have to pay all of my own bills.
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Age: 23
Education: bach degree automotive technology
Years of experience: 1
Function: Bus Driver
Monthly salary (before taxes): ~3000-3400
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~2000-2200
Extra legal-advantages: mobib for de lijn, tec and mivb, voedselcheques and the usual
Location: east flanders
Sector/Industry: (public) public transport
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 39
Education: Theology Master and Mathematics Master
Years of experience: 17
Function: CEO
Monthly salary (before taxes): -
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 50000 +
Extra legal-advantages: -
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Mining / Gemstone / Jewelry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: -
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Age: 28
Education: Nursing Bachelor
Years of experience: 2
Function: Head nurse
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4050
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2467
Extra legal-advantages: None
Location: Antwerp region
Sector/Industry: Elderly Care
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm managing, but I feel like I work very very hard and don't get enough credits for my work. I would like extralegal advantages but that is difficult.
Something is unclear for me here… People on the range of 3500-3800 before taxes claim a NET salary around 2400-2500€.
I receive 4000 brutto a month and also make only 2430 net (single and no children!). Is this difference solely based on the fact of not having children?
People reporting around 4K brutto claim net salary higher than what I receive:/
I work and live on Antwerp.
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Age: >50
Education: master of laws
Years of experience: ~30, all combined.
Function: senior legal counsel, head of (highly specialized) department
Monthly salary (before taxes): ~8500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~4500
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, free public transport if I wanted it, medical insurance.
Location: Bxl but mostly wfh
Sector/Industry: public sector
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yup.
We are (often) recruiting, send pm if interested. Masters of laws only.
Age: 42
Education: Master in Computer Science + attempt at PhD
Years of experience: 16 (+3)
Function: Software Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 7900 (yearly income including expected bonus + car compensation, averaged out over 13.92 months)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): somewhere around 4000, not very sure due to bonus, ...
Extra legal-advantages: stock purchase program with discount, bonus always higher than expected, mealvouchers, ecocheques, pension plan, health insurance
Location: Central Belgium
Sector/Industry: Specialized Software Solutions
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 32
Education: Masters in Business
Years of experience: 9
Function: Something in private equity
Monthly salary (before taxes): 12.000 as independent (excl. bonuses), net monthly salary not so relevant given tax optimization
Location: Flanders
Sector/ Industry: Private equity
Are you managing/ content with your current income? Honestly it's hard not to be satisfied with this income, especially given the job is so much fun. I do work long hours, often also in weekends, need to be available at all times (challenging with holidays), so no hobbies on a weekly basis and most of my spare time goes to my significant other (less time for friends unfortunately). The grass will allways be greener somewhere, however I fully understand how lucky I am given a lot of people work the same hours for a lot less.
Age: 34
Education: HS, unfinished university studies, 1.5 year programming 'bootcamp'.
Years of experience: 3
Function: Backend developer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2400
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1850
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, hospitalisation insurance
Location: Leuven
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I live alone and am renting, so unfortunately no (rent indexation in September hurt a lot.) Also, overtime not paid but expected because I work for a "startup" (company 10+ years old.)
I really wish I could.
Our entire team basically threatened to leave in September already; that's when I got an increase from 2100->2400, which translated to ~40 euros net IIRC? The same day my rent was increased by like 80 euros and my gas monthly by 50. Felt pretty bad.
We were told that this is it, no more raises.
Cool, so they're exploiting you under the guise of "but we're a start-up!". Gotta ask yourself how much longer you're willing to keep that up, and be on the lookout for other jobs. You've got experience now.
Yes, they absolutely are. Honestly, the stories I could tell. To paint you a picture, I'll just tell you real quick about my team (and my personal pride):
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My personal pride: I managed to help a little in convincing the sysadmin to leave. Who worked there for 10 years, and made the same amount I did. He started as a developer btw, and without going into details, he was holding everything together on IT side.
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My two teammates? 5+ years of experience, also do a hell of a lot more than the "junior developer" title they're given. I'd put them between medior and senior based on the depth of development experience, and breadth of everything around development, system administration, and more.
They make a negligible sum more than me. They're more 'safe' life wise because they don't live alone and don't rent, but it's still offensive how under-appreciated they are.
Gotta ask yourself how much longer you're willing to keep that up, and be on the lookout for other jobs
The problem is, 6 months ago I'd have said I'm suffering from severe burnout/my depression is back in full force. Now it's grown into...something else.
It's too late for me at this point to get out, or do anything; but I'm still hoping to convince the two guys I mentioned (who are also a lot younger, which helps them - especially in IT) to gtfo.
BRB, getting my walking brace... Kidding. I guess it's relative. Too late to do most, if not all the things I wanted in life, but I'd rather not elaborate - don't want to have to break out a tiny violin. So let's just leave it at: Thank you for the comment, and the positivity, it's always appreciated. <3
(Also, your flair made me giggle; I still have an email address out there with an 88 in it that I probably won't use again anytime soon.)
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Look for something else. Set up LinkedIn, open yourself for opportunities. Unless you are getting stock for working there, it makes no sense to work that hard to make someone else rich.
Unless you are getting stock for working there
I once asked if given the rising energy prices I could WFH a little more. Because y'know, code monkey. I don't really need to be at the office. Nope, 0 flexibility, we even had to sign a contract for a year on which specific days we're home, which we're in office.
My colleague asked if they could pay part of the internet bill, when covid lockdowns started. Nope.
So that's a long-winded way of saying definitely not getting stock :'D
I have offers coming in from LinkedIn, and was recommended a company by my brother + his boss (Also sw developers), but I guess my company's doing something right; I'm so burnt out and exhausted I can't see any company wanting to hire me.
Oh wow that sounds not like a good employer. I got a full wfh-kit, an allowance for electricity and all. I can work from home or in the office as i please. And we got 1250 hardship last month because of the crisis. Please start looking out for other employers. Doesn’t hurt to try right?
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Age: 24 years
Education: Master in Drug Development
Years of experience: 1 year
Function: Regulatory Affairs Officer
Monthly salary (before taxes): € 3700
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): € 2500
Extra legal-advantages: € 140 mealvouchers/month, 13th month
Location: Leuven
Sector/Industry: Medical Devices
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Still live with my patents, so I am managing faily well.
Age: 23
Education: TSO + extra BSO (watchmaking)
Years of experience: 0 (2 months working)
Function: Polyvalent operator
Monthly salary (before taxes): €4417
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2593 (varies)
Extra legal-advantages: maaltijdcheques €3.5 per day, cafetaria with low prices, km+fietsvergoeding, end of year + random bonuses, ploegenpremie (dont know if that counts as extralegal?)
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Pharmaceutical
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Very, living at my parents' and having a high net salary means I can invest a lot and buy machinery/tools to start (possibly) being a watchmaker in bijberoep
Edit: any tips for someone who just started working are welcome too!
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Maximize earnings, minimize spendings, make a (financial) plan and invest the rest. Don’t forget to live but try not to live above your “stand”.
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Age: 29
Education: College dropout
Years of experience: 6.5
Function: Cloud consultant
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3800 (will be indexed next month)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2655
Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel card (benelux), hospitalization insurance, group insurance, 13th month, eco cheques, phone subscription
Location: Antwerp/Gent/Brussels (depending on project)
Sector/Industry: IT consultancy
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes, comfortable. Made it possible for me to prioritize my health after a recent accident and cancel a change in job that would have significantly increase my income(net would have gone to 3.2k)
Age: 26
Education: Industrial Engineering Chemistry
Years of Experience: 1
Function: Engineer
Salary, before taxes: 4250
Salary, after taxes: 2950
Extra Legal Advantages: 400 euro's for transport, thirteenth month, production bonus, insurance (hospital), Bonuses for being physically active
Location: Netherlands, just across the border
Sector: Petrochemistry/plastics
Are you getting managing/content: I am very happy and lucky to have gotten into this job. It's a work hard, get paid good. I work easily 45ish hours + 2 hour drive every day (overhours unpaid), sometimes on call 24/7 a week (limited pay). But very inclusive, friendly place, lots of learning and growing opportunities, lots of variation
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Age: 29
Education: Master of Science IT engineering
Years of experience: 5
Function: Project Manager / Analyst
Monthly salary (before taxes): invoice around 10-15k/month excl VAT
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): If i would pay out everything around 5k-6k net (with dividends, …) salary itself would be about 1.5k but supplemented with dividends.
Extra legal-advantages: Car on company, phone, internet, …
Location: Brussels region
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, very. Went from “normal” income around 2.5k net to this in about 2 years. I do not complain at all.
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Age: 27
Education: Professional Bachelor
Years of experience: 4
Function: Account Manager Life Insurance
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3.300,-
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.200,-
Extra legal-advantages: €8 meal vouchers/day, 250 EUR ecocheques/year, group insurance, hospitalization insurance, car + fuel card.
Location: Ghent
Sector/Industry: Insurance
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 28
Education: Environmental management (masters @ULB)
Years of experience: 2
Function: Environmental consultant
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2208 (I work 4/5)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1850
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, km vergoeding voor fiets (is meegeteld bij netto loon), insurance, pension fund, €300 every 3 years for new phone + subscription, laptop, work setup at home
Location: East Flanders (Gent)
Sector/Industry: Consultancy
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I’m perfectly happy with what I get! I love in a cohousing so a lot of costs are shared.
Age:
30
Education:
Nurse
(Hbo5).
YOE:
7
Function:
Thuisverpleging
(bediende bij
zelfstandige
praktijk
Bruto:
4500-5000€.
Netto:
2800-3500€.
Advantages:
none.
Location:
province of
antwerp.
Sector:
thuisverpleging
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Age: 23
Education: Bachelors degree 'houttechnologie'
Years of experience: 1,5
Function: Junior project lead
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2050
Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel card, group insurance, health insurance, bonuses around 4000 gross/year
Location: Ghent/Brussels
Sector/Industry: Construction
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Currently living at home so I cannot comment on this
Age: 35
Education: KSO
Years of experience: 7
Function: Surveyor liquid chemicals
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3299€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2190€
Extra legal-advantages: mealvouchers (8€/day), health insurance , 13th month
Location: Antwerp (port)
Sector/Industry: logistics/chemical
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: With current inflation it's becoming tight on a single income but I can manage. Just have to be more careful these days
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Age: 22
Edcuation: Bachelor's Degree
Years of experience: 1
Function: Junior Marketeer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000€
Monthly salary (after taxes): 2050€
Extra-legal advantages: meal vouchers, unlimited home internet, pension fund, public transport and bicycle abonnement, phone and laptop, phone subscription, teleworking allowance of 50€, 13th month & holiday pay.
Location: Mechelen
Sector/industry: Telecom
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I consider myself very lucky to have found a job that I both love and that also pays well (considering my lack of experience). I manage to save up a considerable amount every month, even when renting a studio flat in Brussels.
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Age: 34
Education: Master
Years of experience: 10
Function: Account manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2800
Extra legal-advantages: Company car + fuel card +group insurrance +eco vouchers, smartphone + subscription + end of year bonus of 6000
Location: Kempen/Antwerp
Sector/Industry: PPE
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Sure
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Age: 27
Education: ASO science and maths
Years of experience: 3
Function: operator
Monthly salary (before taxes): about 4700-4800 depending on shifts
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2750 + yearly €100-1500 net cao-90 bonus
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, optional bike leasing, pension fund, hospitalisation insurance, ability to buy stocks at 20% discount, discount on meds produced by company, €250 ecocheques, yearly €75 sports and culture cheques
Location: Kempen
Sector/Industry: biotech pharmaceutical industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: it’s definitely a lot of money. But the salary growth is pretty much non existent. You can be the best employee and earn as much as the employee that does the bare minimum. The only way to evolve your salary is by climbing the ladder.
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Age: 27
Education: Bachelors degree
Years of experience: 2.5
Function: Support in education
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000 (Feel free to check my salary here: Barema 301)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000
Extra legal-advantages: Phone and laptop. Bike allowance of around 75 net per month, depending on how many times I go to work by bike. Public transport to and from work is free.
Location: West Flanders
Sector/Industry: Education
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, but only by living frugally I manage
Age: 26
Education: Bachelor in logistics + Master in Supply Chain Mangt, Master in Business Process Mngt
Years of experience: 1.5
Function: Supply Chain Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3400
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2350
Extra legal-advantages: NMBS abo, group insurance, possibility for flex reward plan
Location: West-Vlaanderen
Sector/Industry: Manufacturing
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, I still live at home, so I can save + invest (see r/BEFIRE)
Age: 39
Education:
Years at high school and university, but did not graduate.
Years of experience: working since 2007 so 15 years, various fields
Function: operations coordinator
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4200
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400
Extra legal-advantages: car + fuel, phone subscription and model, tablet, lunch, a lot of insurances, company small bonusses, a few fixed days extra holiday, ..
Location: port of antwerp
Sector/Industry: maritime
Are you getting
managing/content
with your current
income?: I
would.
currently
extra expense is
eating savings.
Age: 37
Education: not important for my job. It's a typical immigrant job. But I have a master and a second bachelor.
Years of experience: less than a year in this job/area. Other experiences in other areas don't make a difference in the job too.
Salary: 15 per hour bruto. Hours depend on the month.
Location: West-Vlaanderen
Sector: Hotel (all around worker: breakfast, cleaning).
No extra legal advantages. Besides the mandatory ones per PC.
Am I content with my salary? Yes, it's over what everyone pays here in the city (minimum per PC, or 12.7) which is pretty darn rare.
Am I managing to live with it?
It would be impossible alone.
Age: 30
Education: Bachelor Electro-Mechanics
Years of experience: 6
Function: PLC/SCADA Programmer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000 EUR
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000 EUR
Extra legal-advantages: Company car, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, mobile phone subscription
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Industrial Automation
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, but feels like I am underpaid?
Age: 30
Education: bachelors degree
Years of experience: first year (with bachelors degree) studied 4 years and worked 5 years before that
Function: coördinator/leidinggevende
Monthly salary (before taxes): €3044,45
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2314,76
Extra legal-advantages: small amount of 'maaltijd- en ecocheques' and free 'pendelfiets'
Location: Ghent
Sector/Industry: Education
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: We are a double income, still renting, one kid household. I've been able to save money every month so far
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Age: 40
Education: master (music)
Years of experience: 17
Function: coordinator
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3850
Monthly salary (after taxes): 2300
Extra-legal advantages: meal vouchers, public transport
Location: Antwerp
Sector/industry: culture
Are you managing/content with your current income: it's enough to live comfortably, but difficult to save money without tightening the belt. I have to make choices: either put €500 /month on a savings account and live very poorly, or (as I do now) travel, go to restaurants, buy books, get new clothes,... but don't save a lot. As a single man life is very expensive. €700 rent, €165 energy, €40 insurance, €80 pension saving, €65 gym, ~€150 tv/internet/streaming,... all need to be carried by myself, while families get to split these costs in half.
Age: 33
Education: Master of science
Years of experience: 7
Function: Product Owner
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4200
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2900
Extra legal-advantages: net allowance 150/month, maaltijdcheques 7 eur/day, company car + fuel card, 13th month, ecocheques 250/year, group insurance, hospitalization + dental insurance also for family, phone plan
Location: Hasselt
Sector/Industry: Healthcare IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, it’s more than OK. Live very comfortably, no money issues. Can save up to 1000 eur/month.
Age: 32
Education: Associates degree (2 year degree) from America (Im American)
Years of Experience: 2.5
Function: IT Support
Monthly Salary (before taxes): 2800
Monthly Salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000
Extra legal advantages: maaltijdcheques (8 euro per day), fietsvergoeding (about 100 euro per month), hospital insurance, 17.5 compensation days!
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. 37.5 days of vacation is nuts to me. Idk what to do with them all.
Age: 31
Education: bachelor's degree in journalism
Years of experience: 5
Function: copywriter
Monthly salary (before taxes): around 5.4k, including raise and small indexation that are going into effect next month so not exactly sure
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): around 3k
Extra legal-advantages: hospitalisation and public transport. Phone and phone subscription. Work laptop and some WFH allowance. (I also work for something that is dear to my heart ❤️)
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: ngo
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. Could earn more in finances but think it would make me depressed long-term
Age: 31
Education: professional batchelor chemistry, Academic batchelor chemistry, master in industrial science: chemistry (industrial engineer)
Years of experience: 8
Function: Process engineer - specialisation in mechanical safety devices (overpressure protection)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5230
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2935
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers (9€) pension fund, health insurance for myself and the family,
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: oil & gas - chemistry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes, I have my own car, pay mortage and am able to save and provide for my family.
Age: 34
Education: ASO
Years of experience: 13
Function: Sales
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4100
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2550
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, company car with fuel card (BE), company phone and phone plan, partially paid internet at home
Location: Company is located in Antwerp Province, area of responsability is BeNeLux
Sector/Industry: IT hardware distribution
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: managing yes, but I we just bought and renovated a house, so there's always a way to spend all the money. I've made it a point to save at least 100 euro's per month. IMPORTANT: We still have a fixed energy contract with the old prices until next summer. After that I don't count on saving anymore...
Age: 26
Education: ASO - Master in computer science
Years of experience: 3
Function: Software developer (frontend)
Monthly salary (before taxes): €4000/m
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €3000/m + €150/m "kilometervergoeding" - note: mandatory "zorgverzekering" -€100/m
Extra legal-advantages: €260/m pensionfund (€100 own contribution + €150 company contribution) + hypotheekrenteaftrek around €1800/year (not company specific but just a benefit in the Netherlands) + free breakfast and lunch + free gym subscription + freedom of working from home as much as I like
Location: The Netherlands (grensarbeider)
Sector/Industry: Fintech
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: At first very satisfied with my salary but it seems I am underpaid for my level (we have a company salary scale which is public to everyone). Hoping to get an extra €400-€500 gross for my next performance review to get on level with the salary in the salary scale).
Age: 32
Education: Secundaire and 1 relevant certificate
Years of experience: difficult to say, technically 1 year but boosted by another 2 in Customer service
Function: KYC specialist
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2400
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2059,22 (this includes both a Work from home and travel expenses due to working hybrid)
Extra legal-advantages: cheaper amex gold card, meal vouchers and eco cheques
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Financial
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Dunno what it would be since I live at home (single and lived/worked abroad before which didn't leave much for saving)
Age: 46
Education: ASO (high school) and a professional course for my current job through VDAB (It-technician)
Years of experience:
19 (including
periods looking for
a job), started in
2003
Function:
It-support,
pc-migration,
Pc-repair, Field
technician
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2400
**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1884
Extra legal-advantages: mealvouchers, ecovouchers, car that I had to return
Location: live in Antwerp, working mostly in Brussels
Sector/Industry: It-consultancy for other companies, as employee
Are you getting managing/content with your current income? No, I have to scrape by every month. No money left to save or travel @ all...
Age:25
Education: Bachelors degree+ few formations
Years of experience: 1 year
Gross monthly revenue: 3200+-
Net income: 2200+-
Extra legal advantages: 13,14 months + annual bonuses
Sector: Chemicals
Location: Brussels
Level of contentment: I’m very content
Age: 29
Education: Master Public administration & Management + Post grad. IT management
Years of experience: 4
Function: IT-portfolio manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): €4500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2750 (€3550 including mobility budget)
Extra legal-advantages: Mobility budget (€810, net), Laptop, Phone + subscription, Meal vouchers, Insurance (group + health), yearly bonus, 13th month, cheaper restaurant, WFH
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Semi-government
Age: 30
Education: TSO + Bachelor Applied Computer science from College
Years of experience: 7
Function: Senior Software Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 12,500 CAD (~8750 EUR)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 10000 CAD (~7000 EUR)
Extra legal-advantages: Paid internet at home + wellness spending of 2K CAD per year
Location: Remote (Based in Toronto)
Sector/Industry: Software
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. I got pretty lucky considering my education background.
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Age: 30
Education: Law (general master+specialized)
YoE: 4-5
Function: Legal counsel
Monthly salary (gross): 4800 (will index in January)
Monthly salary (net): 2700ish
Extra legal advantages: company car with fuel card, 10% bonus (depending on company results, not individual), stock options, assurance groupe, healthcare insurance, homeworking net payment of 125, company pays for stuff I need as a counsel eg trainings, company visa card, meal cheques
Location: not Brussels
Industry: pharma
Content: Not sure whether I'm underpaid compared to peers in law firms with a comparable background as I refused to slave away at the bar, had to switch jobs a bit to get here. But as it is a high wage already, no complaints. I come from a blue collar background, so I was taught 'work first, ask later'. Looking around me in a corporate environment, I am not 100% sure that is the correct approach. But I like to go to work everyday as I feel appreciated by a lot of colleagues on the business & finance side.
Age: 30
Education: ASO + SIRA
Years of experience: 5
Function: Procesoperator
Monthly salary (before taxes): €6453
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €3480 (excluding yearly holiday pay +- €9000, and other bonuses)
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, group/hospitalisation/dental-insurance, bicycle lease, 34 hour week,...
Location: Port of Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Chemical Industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. It's a lot of money for a very chill job, with most of the time little to no stress.
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Age: 31
Education: TSO, uni dropout
Years of experience: 6
Function: Technical Consultant
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4100
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3100
Extra legal-advantages: Company car + fuel card, bicycle lease, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, smartphone + subscription, hospital insurance
Location: West-Flanders
Sector/Industry: Logistics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Certainly can't complain
What kind of net additionls you have ? Thats not a lot of tax comparing brutto - netto
Age: 24
Education: bachelor
Years of experience: 1
Function: DevOps engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3100
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2060
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, group insurance, ambulatory assurance, train free pass, smartphone + subscription, teleworking allowance, free bike for work travels, cafeteria plan that can also be transformed in a 14th month
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: NMBS&Co
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Sucks to be paid less than your old job (netto) and lose all your salary every 3 months on abusive co-property fees.
But considering I was literally dying from boredom on my old job, yeah I'm content. And the pay raise when reaching the next barema should be at least worth 500€ brutto (because fuck cars) so not that bad.
What was your previous job? Hard to imagine something so boring. Was it in IT as well?
Premise: I was hired as a cloud consultant
Reality: I got baited and switch into a tester position for a networking device.
I had 0 interest in that mission and it wasn't really challenging for me.
I just spent half a year trying to break the damn thing repeating the same scripts after each sprint, reporting the same bugs that were present on another variant of the same product, and even sometimes basic things in the specs. Very few transferable skills could be learned on the mission as well.
The whole reason I kept staying there was for the salary and the client team being really nice to work with. To the point I agreed to stay until the product was shipped out.
But that's until a shitty manager (at the consultancy company) came in and I decided to leave earlier for anything but consultancy.
Age : 25
Education : engineering (burgerlijk ingenieur/ingenieur civil)
Years of experience : 1
Function : data scientist
Monthly salary (before taxes) : 3250
Monthly salary (after taxes) : 2200
Extra legal advantages : cafetaria plan, meal+eco vouchers, insurance stuff, pension fund, insurances discounts, phone+internet plan, nmbs, various premiums during the year, 35+ days off
location : Brussels
Sector/Industry : insurances
Are you getting managing/content with your current income : yes, and I should have a raise this month + indexing in january. I can afford to save ~500€ while pretty much enjoying my life (partying, eating out, going on trips, hobbies)
Age: 37
4 years anciënniteit
Secondary school teacher
Gross income: don't know. Have to check.
Net income: €2350 (4/5 ouderschapsverlof)
No extra benefits (aside from the 15 weeks of vacation)
Location: Antwerp
Age: 38
Education: University 4 years
Years of experience: 3
Function: team leader (30 / 40 workers)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3400 €
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400
Extra legal-advantages: warrants - 5000€/ jaar bruto, 13de loon, Meal vouchers.
Location: Turnhout
Sector/Industry: Agriculture
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: not really... I think I'm underpaid.
Age: 20
Education: TSO + Se-Ne-Se year
Years of experience: 1
Function: proces operator
Monthly salary before taxes: 4900
Monthly salary after taxes: 2900
Extra legal adventages: maaltijdchecks, all sort of insurances, discounts, bycicle lease,
Location: port of antwerp
Sector/industry: chemistry
I am content with my income, I work long and difficult hours but for a 20year old this is a good income
Man I feel like the more i see these peeps in chemistry, the more I regret not choosing for chemistry for college.
Went for car technology instead.
💀
Age:29
Education: Master Degree in Physics Engineering
Years of experience: 5
Function: Technical Operations Leader (now moved to Asia but I'll put my last Belgian Salary)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4340€ (63.5K€/year).
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): About 2700€
Extra legal-advantages: 8€/day meal vouchers, Eco-chèques, group insurance, pension, 10% Yearly Bonus and 10% yearly budget to dedicate to whatever I want. I had a company car but handed it back since I was working from home (was about 500€ gross + 120€ gross fuel card).
Location: Wallonia
Sector/Industry: Med Tech
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes and no. I'm happy with the fast progression from last year (roughly +20%) thanks to a new grade in my former position (+10%) in April then a promotion to this position (another +10%) in September. I was supposed to get the new grade more than a year ago and by then was quite underpaid. The company is known to pay roughly 20% below market, so this position is still below market. But I can't complain with the money that comes in my pocket at my age (everybody would like more, that's for sure).
I was badly underpaid for my last position given the amount of work I was doing (weekends, night shifts, travelling all the time, crazy hours, no personal life). However, this new position is very chill. I do my own schedule, no responsibilities, no power except advising. Nobody checks what I do (that both a pro & a con) so I have a loooot of freedom and can work from home. I can decide myself which of the company sites in the world I'll visit during the year (allowed 1 week / site / year). So all in all, now I'm pretty happy with this and since I'm in the bottom of the salary range for this position, it should progress slightly faster.
Age: 29
Education: bachelor in nursing A1
Years of experience: 4
Function: nurse in a psychiatric institution
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3300ish
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2500ish
Extra legal-advantages: fietsvergoeding 140 euro, groepsverzekering
Location: vlaams brabant
Sector/Industry: health care
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: happy with the income. But nothing can make up for the mental strain and constant shift in your sleep unfortunately
You people are all so young. It's scary.
Is someone making stats out of this? If not, any interest that I do it and post the results?
usually the stats get posted in a few days. but you can always give it a swing yourself
And of course this thread is posted in the month that I'm unemployed 🙄
Age: 28
Education: Information Management & Security
Years of experience: Two years of work, unemployed for a month and a bit.
Function: Job seeking
Monthly salary (before taxes): A bit over €1300, all from your hard earned tax money 😘
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Do you need to pay taxes on unemployment benefits?
Extra legal-advantages: A lot of free time I guess.
Location: At home
Sector/Industry: None
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: No, gib work pls
Age: 29
Education: Bachelor of Engineering
Years of experience: Almost 4 years
Function: Software Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3350 Euros
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Around 2500 Euro
Extra legal-advantages: some pension scheme and extra insurances.
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Defense/Security
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:
Not really, I feel i made a stupid decision to accept a job with lower salary than my previous one just for the sake of getting new experience in a different sector which i like, good thing is that money doesn't really motivate me and i don't care much about it as long i have money to cover my expenses it's fine, which is not the case now due to the high amount of standing hospital bills and extra bills i have to pay.I am a workaholic so i don't mind working all day, all time. The only advice i give to new people and to any one, is don't make your life depends on your work, this lifestyle sucks. For me it helped and was good in the beginning for a person like me who don't mind working 24/7 but life is not about that. you must be careful, your work won't give a shit if something happened to you. I have been through burnouts multiple times and in sometimes it required hospital admissions, I really don't want anybody to go to this deep, set boundaries for work, try to have a life and work is just part of it not the main motivator for it. I have spent almost 3 years working everyday including weekends, it's not really worth it and not health. that's why i recommend take it a bit easy specially for people who are just starting, I know when you start you have shit load of energy and want to prove yourself, but take it easy, if you're smart enough you can do many kind of things with little effort.And most important try to have social life beside work.I am just saying this because i think it might help somebody.I have spent my first 3 years in Belgium that's working all the time, The result was I did a great job of course and everybody at work is happy, but i have been through burnout twice, multiple hospitalizations, Destroyed mental health, no social life, no friends, lost contact with family. So work took everything from me. Now i am like a deadman walking. Please don't be like me.
Age: 33
Education: Master Industrial siences - computer science
Years of experience: 10
Function: Senior front-end developer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4300 (before indexation next month)
**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2700
Extra legal-advantages: Car + loading pass, Maaltijdcheques, work from home flat fee, phone subscription, hospital insurance
Location: Gent
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: As a family, (engaged, 2 kids) we are able to save +-500 a month, so pretty happy with that.
Age: 30
Education: Bachelors in electrical engineering
Experience: 6y
Function: industrial testing engineer
Salary before tax: 4116
After tax: 2350
Benefits: car, fuel card, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, phone plan, insurance Location: Brussels
Sector: secure financial electronic transactions
Are you blabla: it’s okay. I do have to fidget with my finances quite a bit to fit in the mortgage, house remodelling and saving a few pennies here and there for a stress-free future.
Age: 33
Education: Master & 2 'Master after masters'
Years of experience: Kinda depends how you look at it. 8 Since first diploma, 1 since finally finishing
Function: Speclalist physician
Monthly salary (before taxes): 15-20k as an independent
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): hard to say, I have a monthly income of 2900 and around 60-70k in dividends after taxes.
Extra legal-advantages: I suppose you could count my car, phone, laptop, ... as EL advantages.
Location: East Flanders
Sector/Industry: Medical
Are you getting managing/content with your current income? Ofcourse, I'm not that delusional to not realize I'm in a very comfortabel position. Still getting used to this after earning between 2 an 3k a month during the previous years as a specialist in training.
Interesting to see a specialist's salary. I always wondered how much you guy's make.
While I'm a bit jealous, I'm also kinda not, given what you have to do. I don't mind seeing gore in r/crazyfuckingvideos but seeing it in real life must be something else (I presume you had some form of residency?).
As /u/Mr-FightToFIRE stated: interesting to see a specialist salary. Can I ask you to clarify how it's structured?
Based on what you post, I see a day rate of ~€750. You probably also need a special (expensive?) insurance etc.
Reason I ask: lots of us work in IT and having this rate is feasible (although not for everyone/as of day oen) with minimal level of expenses. So although high (but deserved), it's not that exuberant as I imagined it'd be.
It's only his first year as a specialist. I imagine his rate will go up quite a bit as he gets more "cases" (or whatever it is you call new patients files).
Yea it'll go up a bit next couple of years but not by insane amounts. Probably stabilizing around a 1000/day without counting indexation. I could earn quite a bit more but I'm one of the 'new generation' of doctors that tend to value a social life/family as well next to being a good professional. I work around 45-50hours a week.
That’s what I’m wondering about. How does the future look like? What’s driving the potential? What costs are associated with it, as I can imagine them being higher than the typical IT person.
See above replies :-) Without counting indexation I'll probably end up in the 200-250k range a year. In general costs are already deducted by the hospital so the only real costs are what every other independent has (car, insurance 1000/year/....)
Income varies wildly between specialization and I don't always make myself popular with some friends when I tell them they earn a rediculous income. Radiologists easily make 600k/year. I'd say my income is somewhere between the p25 and 50 for a specialist, although it's not really a normal distribution, more like a 'lognormal' one with a large tail with very high incomes and a very large cluster around 15-25k/month.
That seems pretty accurate at this point as a day rate. Insurance is not that crazy for my specialty but can be pretty wild for some others but those tend to earn a the most as well so it more than compensates.
40 y/o
Vlerick/AMS
Approx 20 years experience
Leadership
€9.000 gross (payroll) (this x13,92)
€4.650 net
All usual perks you’d imagine. Bonus of €25k gross
Brussels
Getting by, obviously. Wife earning an above average salary as well so we don’t complain. However, lots of long days, high stress so certainly not enjoyable for everyone. limited spare time. Need a lot of support (cleaning, laundry, kids after school, etc). Slightly frustrated by how much taxes I pay (probably around €80k/year) and see how bad our country is managed. Looking forward to 10-12% indexation, but tbh, it’s a mess to explain this to my foreign based HQ and makes no sense above a certain threshold. But I’m not complaining from a personal perspective.
Do you feel business school is an added value in the Belgian market?
I don’t think it helped me to land this opportunity. Ability, willingness to take on more responsibilities, investment on doing interesting stuff instead of focusing on short term benefits, positive & can do mentality paid off.
The first 12 years of my career were concentrated on building where I landed after.
Management schools are interesting and fun, but not sure about the value add. I often see students or alumni with (too) high expectations. You’re still going to have to prove yourself, regardless of pedigree.
Throwaway, but want to contribute to the statistics this time around.
Age: 35
Education: professional bachelor
Years of experience: 11
Function: Software engineer / Devops
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3800 euro
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400 euro
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers 8 euro/piece, medical insurance, company car with limited tanking card, yearly bonus based on company KPI's, WFH
Location: West-Vlaanderen
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age:44
Education:TSO (TIW)
Years of experience:23
Function:Problem Manager
Monthly salary (before taxes):5762
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):3200 (+500 bonus every quarter)
Extra legal-advantages:Laptop/phone/internet
Location:Brussels
Sector/Industry:Consultancy
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:Nope
Age: 30
Education: Master in nanotechnologie & master in management
Years of experience: 5
Function: Application engineer for image sensors
Monthly Salary (before taxes): 4600
Monthly Salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2550 + end year performance bonus
Extra legal advantage: company car (no tank card), hospital insurance for me and my family, pension fund, cellphone and provider (which I don't take because 1 crappy phone and 2 orange as a provider... With less Gb than I need)
Location: Mechelen
Sector/Industry: semiconductors which is in the metal working industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income: just bought a house and I typically don't cook and get food delivered so it has been a little tight but yes I manage and I have space to cut savings and I do manage to save some money
Age: 27
Education: Tso + 1 year of SIRA this is a project specially created for people who want to reschool themselves into a process operator
Years of experience: 6.5
Function: Process operator
Monthly salary (before taxes): €6800 bruto for 20 days
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €3450 netto base (up to €5k depending on OT)
Extra legal-advantages:
Performance bonus up
to +€2k net yearly.
Kind of a
pensionplan.
Maaltijd-,eco-,giftcheques.
Full DKV for
family.
Dental
and eye plan.
Cafeteriaplan:. can
be used for various
things up to 15% of
bruto wage to lease
a car (i have audi
a3) or cheaper
internet, bike, card
for gas for car.
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Petrochemical, polymer industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:
Yes overall it’s good. Job can be exhausting due to shifts 7/7/7 (enough vacation days makes this okay) and often there is a big responsibility. Took me 6 years to really learn the 4 areas of the plant, now its less stressy.
With overtime, salary can go from 0 to €1500 netto extra when really going for it. This means 4 hours before early shift, being called on my day off or 4 hours extra after nightshift etc,…
Age: 25
Education: Bachelor degree
Years of experience: 2
Function: Customer care manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3700
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2350
Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel card, maaltijd cheques (140)
Location: Belgium
Sector/Industry: Commerce
Am i happy?: I have no clue, i feel like i deserve a higher wage for the work i put in but i'm also very unfamiliair with what would be a good wage in belgium. I won't be happy happy until i net 3K+
You’re 25. A lot of people would be very happy with your paycheque.
Yes,
I've been
very lucky and got a
lot of chances to
promote with my
current employee.
For sure am
grateful! Just not
yet where i want to
be
Age: 24
Education: bachelor Agro
Years of experience: 3
Function: Quality assurance
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2300
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1850
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, company car, fuel card, insurance, a bonus +- 500 net/year
Location: West-Flanders
Sector/Industry: Food
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 29
Education: Bachelor degree in electronics engineering
Years of experience: 5 1/2
Function: V&V engineer in railway sector
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3050€ ( gross salary with expat reduced taxation + 150€ net + 23€ x working day on-site, usually 12/14 per month ) on top of this I get meal vouchers and eco cheques
Extra legal-advantages: standard insurances
Location: Charleroi
Sector/Industry: Railway
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Definitely quite happy with the salary, unfortunately expat taxation will end at start of 2024 so probably I’ll be moving somewhere else …
This article explain a bit the new system https://www.bdo.be/nl-be/nieuws/2022/important-amendments-of-the-special-tax-regime-for-expatriates-in-belgium-upda
Me I’m still benefitting from the “old” system which had no time limit, but now it will end for me at end of 2023. The way it works is that a part of your gross salary remains tax free, the specific amount depends on a whole lot of specific conditions in my case it’s around 700€. This of course helps for multiple reasons: one that of course you don’t pay tax on that part or your salary, second that quite often it allows you to remain on a lower tax bracket than what you should
Thanks.
Does this work if you work as a self employed? For example a dentist that works for a percentage, but has created his own company and now is an employee of himself?
I’m not an expert on the legislation but I don’t think it works for self-employed workers
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Age: 28
Education: Middelbaar Technisch
Years of experience: 10
Function: Mechanic in a heavy duty garage
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3.328€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.190€
Extra legal-advantages: 180€ maaltijdcheques, pension saving by my employer, ziekteverzekering by my employer
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: Transport
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: both my wife and i earn around 2k a month. We pay off the house and a few other things and save quite a lot every month.
Age: 27
Education: Bachelor degree in computer science, network orientation.
Years of experience: 3.5
Function: My main function is Salesforce developer, I'm still doing other projects and IT support on the side when needed.
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2906
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1931
Extra legal-advantages: Work laptop, phone, company car + fuel card, ticket repas (6.5€ per worked days), hospitalisation insurance
Location: Sprimont
Sector/Industry: Glass transformation industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Now that I have the company car and the fuel card, I can manage and still save money by the end of the month, otherwise it was getting tight. Now I'm stable and consider myself lucky, so I'm not complaining.
Age: 34
Years of experience: 12
Education: bachelor in computer science
Function: system engineer
Income before taxes: 3700
After taxes: 2500
Extras: company car, fuel card, meal vouchers, cell phone subscription.
Location: flanders/Brussels
Sector: retail
Age: 29
Education: Master Renewable Energy
Years of experience: 4
Function: Offshore Service Technician
Monthly salary (before taxes): ~ 6000 (on average and also depending on weather, etc..)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~ 3000
Extra legal-advantages: eco cheques, 13de maand, gsm abo.
Location: Oostende
Sector/Industry: Electrical (/Offshore)
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes and as a bonus I have time to travel because of a 2 week rotation.
38
5th grade beroeps
In my current function, 5 months (+ 4 months internship)
Handyman
2700-2800 (depending on the month)
A bit under €2000
Meal vouchers (maaltijdcheques)
Limburg
Elderly care
Yes
Age: 33
Education: BSO highschool
Years of experience: 4 months current job
Function: Funeral planner
Monthly before taxes: 3100 brut
Location: Limburg Flanders
Monthly after taxes (including additional salary): 2100 euro + 130 euro maaltijdcheques + being on call/weekends +250-450 euro
Extra legal advantages: company laptop and cellphone abonnement, public transport paid 100%, cafeteria plan, DKV hospital insurance, ecocheques.
Sector/Industry: Funeral industry
Are you managing/content with current income?: I left a career as a Storemanager to start in an entirely new sector from scratch. I earn a lot less now because I used to earn commission based but I couldn’t be happier.
Age: 25
Education: Masters in Biology
Years of experience: 2
Function: Analyst
Monthly salary (before taxes):3250
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150
Extra legal-advantages: Car + fuelcard, maaltijd cheques 8/day, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, 13th month, ecocheque 120 euros
Location:
Sector/Industry: Pharma
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yeah, I can still save a bit after expenses and hobbies
Age: 29
Education: Bachelor (music)
Years of experience: In this function 3 months, in logistics 5 years and 1 year irrelevant experience (music store and dossierbeheerder loans for a bank)
Function: Operations Coordinator (however assistant operations manager fit better imho)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3.320€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +-2.300€
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers (8€/day), group insurance, health insurance
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Breakbulk / Logistics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes but it's getting harder as a single person, loan is 630€/month, syndicus another 310€ (just got raised), another 86€ for phone/tv/internet, 35€ for electricity.
However I will be returning to my job at a container terminal early next year.
This means i will be getting shift compensation, weekend compensation.
Working 9-5 isn't my thing after all.
Will also be getting back my 150l card for diesel/benzine.
With the index I will be getting +-3650€ brut and +-2.550€ net
How on earth do you get 2300 net with only 3300 gross? I also have 2300 net but my gross is 3850... And next indexation I'll maybe get €20 net extra, not €300....
I have no idea how they do the brut/net calculation. But I've always got money back from my taxes so I assume everything is being done correctly.
For the index I can only hope my net gets raised somewhat., don't think it will be 10% as the index, but one can only hope.
Will normally also be starting as zelfstandige in bijberoep in music, so hopefully that can add some extra money's in the bank, altho they will be spent on music stuff/phone/laptop when needed.
Ah ok, you have the "once a year" index. Mine is 2% but several times this year, next one now in December.
I usually get about 280 back, which corresponds with my pension saving plan. So my job's gross-net calculation is also correct lol
Anyway, you're not the only one with this small gross/net difference so I'm not sure where my salary goes wrong...
Do you have kosten eigen aan de werkgever?
Because this adds 125€/month net for me.
It's indeed odd to see the big differences between bruto/netto for some.
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Age: 27
Education: 27
Function: Software consultant & college teacher (parttime)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3284.5 & ???
Monthly salary (after taxes): 2396.31 & 1343
Extra legal-advantages: car, IP ruling, phone bill, medical insurance, laptop, FIP, meal vouchers, eco vouchers
Location: Flanders
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes
PS the bruto pay for my college teacher position is somewhere in the paperworks but I couldn't immediately find it, sorry!
Age: 31
Education: Bachelor social work
Years of experience: 3
Function: In illness at the moment
Monthly salary (before taxes): Can't see the bruto
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Varies around 1500 now
Extra legal-advantages: Social tariff, cheaper tickets public transport, verhoogde tegemoetkoming, cheaper enrollment fee for university, Gemeentelijke huurpremie since I'm on the social housing list for about 7 years now.
Location: East-Flanders
Sector/Industry: Used to be social sector, now studying again
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: It can be rough since I spend about 70 euro/m on medication for my dog. Saving up isn't really possible and I hope I don't have unexpected costs. But it's counting money if I want to go out with friends.
Age: 24
Education: Master with postgraduate in design
Years of experience: 0.5
Function: Big 4 consultant
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2350
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000
Extra legal-advantages: Companycar, eco and meal vouchers, home work allowance, carwash allowance, phone with subscription, laptop
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Consulting
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: still living at home so I’m able to save everything. Ask me again if I’m moving alone haha. Overal happy with what I earn. Think its more then most of my classmates make
Age: 28
Education: Manama Political Sciences
Years of experience: 2
Function: Communication Officer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2550
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1900
Extra legal-advantages: public transportation
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Policy/politics
Age: 26
Education: Bachelor Graphic Digital Media
Years of experience: 1
Function: Graphic Designer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2385
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1850
Extra legal-advantages: ecocheques and foodcheques
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Pet Industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income: yes
Age: 33
Education: BSO (kantoor)
Years of experience: 12
Function: notarieel bediende/dossierbeheerder
Monthly salary (before taxes): € 3.750
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): € 2.280 for a 4/5th position (no additional salary)
Extra-legal advantages: none
Location: East-Flanders
Sector: notary
Are you getting managing/content with your current income: yes, very much so! I changed employers 4y ago to be closer to home and have a better work-life balance as a young mother. On top of that we (me and my husband) have reached a point where we can afford living in a financially unstable time.
Age: 26
Education: Engineering master’s degree
Years of experience: 3
Function: Consultant
Monthly salary (before taxes): 6800
**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**3900 + c. 1000 from annual bonus
Extra legal-advantages: Car, Hospitalisatie
Location: Vlaams-Brabant
Sector/Industry: Consulting
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes! Crazy salary for my age, however the job at times can be tough - both stress levels and working hours. At some point, will leave the crazy lifestyle and that will highly likely involve a paycut
Yep, one of the strategy consulting firms indeed 🙂 Can highly recommend for a few years, though not for a long-term career
What's your salary? 2022 edition
It's been an economically tumultuous year so I'm sure there's a lot to discuss. You guys know the drill by now, but I added an extra questions seeing considering the situation many of us seem to be in.
Age: 30
Education: Highschool and unrelated VDAB/Syntra certs
Years of experience: 1 in this function
Function: Secondline tech support + server and database maintenance
Monthly salary (before taxes): about 2600
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): about 1900
Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel card, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, pension fund, hospital care for me and family, Alan insurance (1k additional medical insurance yearly for me and family) , 150 monthly "expenses", laptop for home use
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Sure. I think you suck at budgeting if this wouldn't be enough in my area.
Age: 32
Education: Professional bachelor IT
Years of experience: 10
Function: DevOps engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): I pay myself €3000 gross
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): about €10K/m if I spread the lump sums each year over 12 month. 1400 is royalties.
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, company car, company expenses such as health, civil liability, and other insurances, international trainings, and rent from company.
Location: Belgium
Sector/Industry: IT, mainly finance
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: First 6 months were "difficult".
Age: 27
Education: Master of Science in engineering sciences
Years of experience: 5
Function: Lead QA/QC engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4250
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +-2650
Extra legal-advantages: company car, gas card, 13th and 14th month, yearly bonus of +-6000€ bruto, meal vouchers, internet at home, eco cheques, 10€ net per day, "representatiekosten"
Location: East Flanders
Sector/Industry: Nuclear
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 46
Education: Bachelor
Years of experience: 10+
Function: planner, sales, technical support
Monthly salary before taxes: 3300 euro
Monthly salary after taxes: 2150 euros
Extra legal advantages: maaltijdcheques, groepsverzekering, cell phone + abo, company bike, company car(EV), 13de maand, vakantiegeld, ecocheques
Location: Limburg
Sector: HVAC
Are you content with your current income: yes
Age: 24
Education: bachelor electromechanical engineering
Years of experience: 2
Function: maintenance technician (5-shifts)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2900
Extra legal-advantages: meal voucher, eco voucher, hospitalisation insurance, extra insurance, bike lease
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: heavy paper industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Cant complain. Making a lot more than my previous job.
Age: 31
Education: ASO + Bachelor Office Management
Years of experience: 7
Function: SOP and HSE Officer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400
Extra legal-advantages: maaltijdcheques, ecocheques, benefits@work, hospitalisation, group insurance, option for bike leasing, thuiswerkvergoeding €50/maand, cadeaucheque €40/jaar, cao90 €65/jaar, STI, LTI
Location: between Gent, Brussels and Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Pharma
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes, very happy now. Last year I was earning 2800 before taxes for doing more than 60 hours a week. I started asking for a raise, after many MANY conversations, I got a raise. I also work in pharma so we get all the indexations, which explains the huge bump in salary. My hours a week went down a little plus we have a lot of benefits so I'm currently very happy.
Age: 32
Education: TSO - multimediatechnieken
Years of experience: 10
Function: Helpdesk Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3475
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2466
Extra legal-advantages: car and gas card (didn’t take it), maaltijdcheques, ecocheques, bonus, 0,23c a km bicycle reimbursement, iPhone + mobile plan, laptop, cafetariaplan
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: IT/insurance
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes, but more is always welcome
Age: 33
Education: Bachelor of Law
Years of experience: 8
Function: IT Business Analyst
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4230€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2600€
Extra legal-advantages: meal cheques
Location: Gent
Sector/Industry: Port Logistics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm feeling the impact of inflation - I could easily save 200-300 euros a month 2 years ago but now I'm living paycheck to paycheck again. Which is baffling to me since I know a lot of people make do with less.
Age: 43
Education: Master of Laws
Years of experience: 19
Function: Policy Advisor
Monthly salary (before taxes): 10.600
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 5.300
Extra legal-advantages: Public transport subscription, cell phone subscription.
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Politics/Government
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am somewhat lucky due to a number of promotions and seniority in my current role.
Age: 27
Education: Bachelor Computer Sciences
Years of experience: 3
Function: Senior Developer
Monthly salary (before taxes): €7.000 (in revenue - self-employed)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €4.000 (x12 - no holiday pay/EoY bonus)
Extra legal-advantages: €200 meal vouchers, €30 mobile plan, laptop and some business purchases here & there for office. No car.
Location: 100% remote for US firm
Sector/Industry: Web Development
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, since I still live at home, but otherwise I would too obviously. Looking to increase it though since what I earn is very modest for a Belgian freelance developer.
No, with a BV. I've updated to indicate the 7k gross is revenue; not salary.
Age: 27
Education: Bachelor in finance
Years of experience: 4,5
Function: Client advisor at one of the 4 big banks
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3100
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150
Extra legal-advantages: Pension Fund, Meal vouchers, hospitalisation insurance
Location: East-Flanders
Sector/Industry: Finance
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 30
Education: High school (ASO) + HBO Networkmanagement
Years of experience: 4
Function: It support consultant
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1900
Extra legal-advantages: car (VW ID4), quick charger installed at my house by my company and paid for by them (also electricity cost), 130 euro maaltijdcheques per month, health insurance, pension fund, 50% of internet bill paid, company laptop and mobile subscription
Location: My company is located in Antwerp, but I work for a customer in Maastricht
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:Yes for managing, content not really with the way prices are evolving
Age: 28
Education: Bachelor
Years of experience: 4
Function: Quality Engineer - automotive
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4300
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2555
Extra legal-advantages: company car (50.000km/year, fuel card (europ), hospitalization insurance, group insurance, 13th month, meao cheques, phone subscription
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: Automotive
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: 🌚🌝
Age: 35
Education: TSO accountancy/IT
Years of experience: 14
Function: managing partner
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5.833,33
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3.384,95 (also deducting sociale lasten of 1.036,22/month)
Extra legal-advantages: car, car charge card, phone, phone sub, internet, hospi insurance, meal vouchers
Location: Leuven
Sector/Industry: communications/media/marketing
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes
Age: 27
Education: Business management: accounting and taxes (Professional Bachelor)
Years of experience: 4
Function: accountant (normal, no ITAA title)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2240
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1750
Extra legal-advantages: Car + fuel card, 13th month, Meal vouchers
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Small accounting firm
Are you getting
managing/content
with your current
income?:
I still
live at home.
Otherwise it would
be hard.
Nope,
should be getting a
decent raise at the
end of the year. If
not, I'll be looking
for a new adventure.
Age: 39
Education: Master Economics
Years of experience: 10+
Function: Lead Data Scientist
Monthly salary (before taxes): between 15000 and 18000 euro depending on bonus
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 10000 to 11700 depending on bonus
Extra legal-advantages: full medical insurance, fitness paid, meals at work, signing bonus of 35000 net (recently switched)
Location: Latam, in a country at 60% the living cost of belgium
Sector/Industry: fintech
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: very happy, work a shitton of hours during the week but never thought i d make this much of money
Age: 23
Education: Master in Business Administration
Years of experience: 10 mo.
Function: Data Analyst / BI Developer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2750
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~2000
Extra legal-advantages: Laptop, Phone, Hospitalization Insurance, Meal Vouchers, Cycling compensation
Location: Ghent
Sector/Industry: Logistics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income? Still live at home, but wage could be more, could be less. Got a lot of freedom and good hours so overall quite happy.
Age: 31
Education: Bachelor degree logistics management
Years of experience: 7
Function: Port manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3800
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2350
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, Ecocheques, Company car, fuel card, group insurance, hospitalization plan, 13th month, mobile phone+plan
Location: West Flanders
Sector/Industry: Logistics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 28
Education: Bachelor interior & design
Years of experience: 6-7 years
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2200€
Monthly salary (after taxes): 1885€
Extra legal advantages: eco cheques, maaltijd cheques, fuel card 100€, 100€ extra
Location: Limburg
Sector/industry: interior, sales/designer
Are you getting managing?: Yes, i guess. I will get a raise in january(+250bruto), extra on the indexing. I don't really know what others earn in my industry
Age: 28
Education: Professional bachelor IT
Years of experience: 5
Function: Software Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3770
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2920
Extra legal-advantages: Car + fuel card (EU), mobile + plan, hospitalisation insurance, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, laptop
Location: Belgium
Sector/Industry: IT, FinTech
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age:
36
Education:
MSc in Life
Science
Years
of
experience:
+/- 10
Function:
R&D
Manager
Monthly
salary
(before taxes): +/-
€5.500,00
Monthly
salary
(after taxes,
including additional
net salary): +/-
€3.100,00
Extra
legal-advantages:
Meal vouchers, phone
+ laptop, annual
bonus (variable,
depending on the
profit we made, was
€800 last
year)
Location:
Province
Antwerp
Sector/Industry:
Chemistry
Are
you getting
managing/content
with your
current
income?:
Yes, nothing to
complain.
Age: 29
Education: A2 electrical technician
Years of experience: 8
Function: automation technician
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3850
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2300 - 2700 depends how many times they call me during my 6 weekly stand-by week
Extra legal-advantages: yearly safety bonus net 1000, share of profit net +-1000, 13th month net 1500. 3 yearly phone and laptop. Meal vouchers 150 per month.
Location: Kempen
Sector/Industry: metallurgie
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 28
Education: Master industrial sciences - electromechanics
Years of experience: 3
Function: commisioning/maintainance on medium voltage (1 - 36 kV) protection relays
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000
**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2200. It's more if overtime had to be done. (Thank god for paid overtime)
Extra legal-advantages: company car + fuel card, meal and eco vouchers, 13th month, group and hospital insurance, net allowance 100 eur (in my net pay)
Location: Belgium, occasionally neighboring countries, rearly Europe. I travel to clients on site.
Sector/Industry: industrial electricity
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes, more is always welcome though.
Age: 33
Education: Master of Computer Science
Experience: 9 years
Function: IT Specialist
Monthly Salary (before taxes): 4700
Monthly Salary (after taxes + bonus + overhours + watch duty): 3750 average
Extra legal-advantages: leasing car, fuel card, meal vouchers, ecological vouchers, sport and culture vouchers, iphone, home internet, gsm subscription, gift card/party etc.
Location: Brussels
Sector: Finance-IT
Happy with income: yes but it could be better for this hard work. My wife also works so we are doing quite fine. We also have around 1K rent income abroad.
Age: 26
Education: Master of Science in engineering (Burgerlijk ingenieur), electromechanical
Years of experience: 1 year
Function: Engineer in the office, planning and pricing
Monthly salary (before taxes): €3500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2200
Extra legal-advantages: Company car with fuel, 13th month, possible bonuses, phone with subscription, pension fund, hospitalisation insurance etc.
Location: Flanders
Sector/Industry: Dredging
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, changed jobs and got a €700 gross since last year.
Age: 28
Education: Master Industrial Engineering
Years of experience: 5
Function: Process & Validation Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4300
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2600
Extra legal-advantages: Car, fuel card EU, meal vouchers, phone, health insurance, bonus
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: Pharma
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
American here, just recently came back from a week in Brussels last month - are these amounts really enough to live on?
Salaries seem quite low compared to costs. I was staying in the Grand Place, however, so perhaps I was simply paying the tourist prices and local places are much cheaper.
Most people in this thread shouldn’t have any issues getting around and this seems to be supported by their comments below. As for me I pay about 400€ rent (tho that’s worth roommates, it used to be 700€ when I was living alone) including utility bills, which leaves me with more or less 1700€/month to do whatever with. I do still need to eat with that and a Spotify subscription also costs 10€ but I don’t have many other recurring costs. Remember that we don’t have pay through the nose to see a doctor, no need to save up for that.
Oh, that's good to hear at least! I was thinking rents were much higher. Sorry for derailing, I really was just shocked, but it doesn't seem to be quite what I was thinking.
Everyone I met and talked to was so kind even when my English/Spanish/Italian didn't exactly translate with the French/Dutch/German!
Honestly everything seems to be getting more expensive, including/especially rent, but it’s still way better than our neighbouring countries as far as I’m aware.
Only worked 3 weeks last month but here i go
Age: 25
Education:/
Years of experience: 7
Function: welder
Before tax: €4.630,49
After: €2.700,30
Extras: only missing a company car
Loc: on and offshore, mostly Europe
Sector: steel construction
Am i managing? Yes
Age: 29
Education: hoge school
Years of experience: 6
Function: Safety advisor level 1
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3900euro
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): around 2900 en 3000euro ( 2400 + (400 to 600) net bonus)
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, group insurance, fuel card and company car 60k incl btw, laptop, mobile phone, hospitalization insurance, 13th month, 36 days vacation, eco cheques,
Location: Brussels but 99% of the time work from home ans directly to clients
Sector/Industry: insurances
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Atm pretty much content but this salary is all thanks to "job hopping". I could get more but currently there is no need.
Age: 27
Education: Masters degree in history and law
Years of experience: 1,5
Function: Lawyer (trainee)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): no idea, got to check that with my accountant at the end of the year
Extra legal-advantages: phone + abonnement
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Family law/ Family property law
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: it’s very different from studying and stressful though satisfying. I can see myself doing this for the foreseeable future + I can expect an increase in position and income also in the near future
Age: 30
Education: TSO toerisme school
Years of experience: 9
Function: key account manager IT reseller
Monthly salary (before taxes): €2800+1070 (bonus)+ €450(international bonus)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2560 (incl. Monthly and Quarterly bonus)
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, ecocheques, hospitalisation insurance, mobile phone, laptop, company car.
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current salary?: yes
Age:23
Education:TSO (high school)
Years of experience: total 5years current job 7 months
Function: Proces operator
Monthly salary (before taxes): 6047.33
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3246.47
Extra legal-advantages: Pension fund, public transport and bicycle lease, hospitalisation insurance, guarenteed income insurance, Maattijdcheques
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Chemistry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes I am.
Age: 31 Education : Bachelors in Finance & certification in accounting
Years of experience: 10
Function: Finance
Monthly salary (before taxes): 6200
Monthly (after tax) : 3500
Extra-legal advantages : Insurances, car , net allowance
Location: Brussels
Sector: Chemical
Are you content: Company is currently downsizing and I don’t know yet if I’m on the chopping block, grateful to have this job at the moment
Age: 30
Education: A2
Years of experience: 11 (6 at current job)
Function: process operator
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4.000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.500
Extra legal-advantages: €8 meal vouchers/day, pension plan, hospitalization insurance, 13th month (end of Year bonus), 32 vacation days + additional day for every 4 years of seniority
Location: Oudenaarde
Sector/Industry: Chemical
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Very much so, for only having finished high school i really cant complain
Age: 26
Education: Bachelor
Years of experience: 3.5y
Function: Production planner
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4100 (shift bonus included)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Around 2500
Extra legal-advantages: Maaltijdcheques, yearly bonus, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Chemistry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 31
Education: Bachelor electro-mechanics/automation
Years of experience: 8
Function: Robotics Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): €3400
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2500
Extra legal-advantages: Company car, fuel card, phone plan, eco cheques, group insurance, CAO90 (colletive bonus)
Location: Halle
Sector/Industry: Automation
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes but as I am getting kids, a pay raise is appreciated 🙃.
Age: 27
Education: Master in Engineering
Years of experience: 3
Function: Supply Chain Project Manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): €5100
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2930 - I get 20 eur internet allowance and that’s it besides my brutto
Extra legal-advantages: bonus , mobile phone, ambulatory and hospitalization insurance (no car)
Location: Brussels but working full remote
Sector/Industry: Pharma
Are you getting managing/content with your current salary?: so far it’s okay, started half a year go, but would like to grow within the company and hopefully raise my salary (also looking forward to get a car once I get promoted to the next level - expected within 1-2 years of being in the position)
Age:32
Education: Bachelor
Years of experience: 10
Function: Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3400
Extra legal-advantages: Meal cheques, eco cheques, 12 extra holidays, end of the year premium
Location: Antwerp Region (not the city)
Sector/Industry: Technology
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: thankful yes, content no.
Age: 24
Education: ASO science and mathematics
Years of experience: 4 (current job 2 years)
Function: solution sales (kinda like an account manager)
Monthly salary before taxes €3000
Monthly salary after taxes € 2100
Extra legal advantages: gross yearly bonus of between 10 and 30% of my yearly gross income (depends on how close to or how far I overshot my target), company car, fuel, phone subscription, internet + tv, meal vouchers, hospitalisation insurance
Location: Antwerp
Sector/industry: IT sales
Are you getting managing/ content with your content with your current income: I can’t complain, I bought my own place with this salary and still have some saving and spending money at the end of the month. With the price increases life has gotten more expensive so I’m waiting for that indexation on my salary
Age: 33
Education: high school drop-out
Years of experience: 15
Function: Operator
Monthly salary before taxes: 3711
Monthly salary after taxes: 2475
Location: oost-vlaanderen, Oudenaarde
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Considering my lack of education i'm very happy with my income. I can also choose my own hours and I work alone.
Age: 33
Education: Bachelor in Economics, part qualified accountant
Years of experience: 8
Function: Supply Chain strategy
Monthly salary (before taxes): ~€8,000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~3,900
Extra legal-advantages: Luncheon vouchers, car, hospitalization insurance, 13th month, 20% bonus, 14th month, representation allowance, ~€10k a year in shares
Location: Wavre
Sector/Industry: Pharma
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Very happy with the income given that I have a healthy work/life balance but don’t have the motivation to push for promotion as the amount of extra work involved isn’t worth it for the ~€5k a year you’d actually see in your bank
Age:25
Education :A2
Years of experience: 1,5
Function: servicedesk admin
Monthly salery (before tax): 3000
Monthly salery (after tax) 2000
Extra legal benefits: hospitalisation, nmbs abonnement. Fiets vergoeding
Location: Ghent
Sector: bio chemical par207
Are you getting/managing/content with current income ?
Yes for the most part most of my pay goes to paying of our mortgage for the house.
14 years of relevant experience here and I earn only € 200 bruto more.Hooray for Healthcare / Educational sector i guess /s
Age: 32
Education: PhD
Years of experience: 5 years post-PhD
Function: Medical Affairs
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5.300 (currently working at 90%, otherwise would be at 5986)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 4.400/month on average over laat 12 months. This includes bonuses, mealvouchers, 13th and 14th month, etc.
Extra legal-advantages: €8 7,56 meal vouchers/day, 250€ ecocheques/year, 70€ cadraucheques/year, 100€ sportscheques/year, group insurance, hospitalization insurance, car + fuel card, 13th/14th month, base yearly bonus at 18% of yearly gross salary
Location: Waver
Sector/Industry: Pharma
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
What's your salary? 2022 edition
Age: 30
Education: bachelors
Years of experience: 7
Function: automation engineer / infra engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4300
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2600 ( + 7k net y.o.y nrrv+wnp+bonus)
Extra legal-advantages: Car + fuel card (600 br cost), daily meal vouchers
Location: remote + mechelen
Sector/Industry: banking
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes, i think i should get more, but this is because i am in an environment of old people all getting a lot more than me and doing a lot less.
Age: 32
Education: Bachelor Informatica (Hogeschool)
Years of experience: 8 year with my current employer + 2 with a previous.
Function: IT Consultant
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4100 (starting January)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Approx. 3000.
Extra legal-advantages: (Electric) car + "tankkaart", internet and phone bill payed for by employer, ecocheques, "fietsvergoeding", hospital insure for my whole family, pension plan, "cafetariaplan" which I use to lease a bicycle, Intellectual Property (which will probably dissappear next year).
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: IT (System and Network administration)
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes.
**Age: 29
**Education: ASO
**Years of experience: 6,5
**Function: Inspecteur van Politie
**Monthly salary (before taxes): 4100 ( without weekends, nights, extra hours)
**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2800 basic + weekends, nights, extra hours.. +/- 500 ( can go up to 1000 but also as low as 100) = 3300 on average
**Extra legal-advantages: Free train and public transport in Brussels
**Location: Brussels
**Sector/Industry: Public sector
**Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, but still looking for an extra job or a side income. As we have quite a lot of free time due to doing shift of 10h.
Age: 38
Education: Highschool (ASO). Dropped out of higher education. Good thing, too. I would have made a horrible teacher.
Years of experience: 15 (in this sector & industry, not for my current company)
Function: RBI & Inspection engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): ~ €3760,00
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~ €2380,00 + €7,00/day worked
Extra legal-advantages: company car + petrol card, cafeteria plan, laptop, phone, 13th month, working from home, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, hospitalization insurance.
Location: head offfice in Vlaams-Brabant, but working for clients in the Benelux.
Sector/Industry: (Petro-)chemical industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: It's fine. It was quite a slog to get here without a proper bachelor or masters' degree, though. I worked the "equivalent through experience" angle. Studying would have been quicker, though at that time in my life I had no idea what I wanted to do.
Stay in school, kids.
Age: 28
Education: Master of Engineering in Photonics (2017)
Years of experience: 4y (6 month in this company)
Function: R&D engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3700eu
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2658eu
Extra legal-advantages: Car+Fuel
Location: Leuven
Sector/Industry: Chip-maker industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I don't get the question.
Age: 28
Education: Masters degree in Engineering (4y)
Years of Experience: 1.5
Function: Project Engineer
Montly Salary (before taxes): 3100
Monthly Salary (after taxes): 2050
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, insurances, option to get reimbursement for phone/laptop, eco-cheques, FIP.
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Construction, engineering
Are you getting managing/content with your current income? Doing fine, but I never realised how slow saving up to get a loan for a house actually is. Parents don't really have that much to give, which I don't mind, but only now has it become evident to me how much that actually helps. Also moved out as soon as I started working, which wasn't the best financial decision, but at some point you just now it's time to go.
Age: 31
Education: Master CS
Years of experience: 7
Function: Software Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5800
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3100 (hired via Deel)
Extra legal-advantages: None
Location: 100% remote
Sector/Industry: Ecommerce
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, could make more with extra legal advantages and tax optimization but mainly doing this for the 100% remote right now
Age: 31
Education: TSO - Woodworking
Years of experience: 11
Function: CEO (As an employee (bediende), I'm not the company owner)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4137
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2473 + 500 = 2973
Extra legal-advantages: Free lunch at work, mobile phone, internet, company car, fuel card for Belgium (also for private use), 36 days of vacation
Location: Antwerp (Province)
Sector/Industry: Metal industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 24
Education: MA in Economics years of experience: around 7(nom education direction related)
Function: Bartender lol
Montly salary before taxes: I dont remember
Montly salary after: 2100 plus 300-400 tips, with growth to around 2500-3000(after first month)
Extra legal-advantages: food vouchers, for around 100€
Sector: Horeca
Are you managing with your current income: Yes, pretty much. My wife also works and since we dont have kids yet and eat at job we barely spend money. Her salary is bit lower than mine but it allowed us to save around 2500€ per month, with our 1k rent a month. We quit jobs recently due going back to our home. Never worked day with my profession due low payment, which can increase only after years of experience. Worked all my life as waiter or bartender, which allowed me to buy house already, couple years ago, plus job is very versatile, im barely ever unemployed, but it comes with huge stress. Now we are saving money for our future business
Age:47
Education:aso with 7th year agricultural tech.
Years of experience:25
Function:nco
Monthly salary (before taxes):3540
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):2420
Extra legal-advantages:15 euro in communication and 70 in clothing and etc . And maybe not a real extra legal but pension at 57 if everything stays the same.
Location: just outside brussels
Sector/Industry:mil
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: the job does have its advantages but it is a lot of outdoors and both mentally / physically demanding work. a comparable possition at the police would pay a lot better ( in all the extras ) but with a lot of extra education and that job has a lot of its own problems that we don't have or at least a lot less. payout for overtime is to be avoided ( 10 euro net / hr in my case ) but due to massive understaffing not always possible . language levels are now a decent amount and worth the effort ( but a long waiting time to get to do the test ) . but all in all quite happy with it.
Idk about all of those, I just started working and it honestly is a lot to handle all at once...
But I get €1850 bruto a month, so I think that's about €1700 nett?
I manage an inline skate shop in east flanders. Well, manage... It's almost as if it's my own store but without having to handle all of the finances. So yes, I got the chance to redesign the entire site, create a lansing page and manage social media as well
I don't think it's a lot is we look at all the tasks I do, but I guess it's not too bad...
Age: 22
Education: high school
Years of experience: 2,5
Function: Trainee air traffic controller
Monthly salary (before taxes):5500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 4650
Extra legal-advantages: very low taxes, expat allowance, private international health insurance, school allowance, Diplomatic identification,diplomatic license plates, tax free fuel, travel allowance, shift allowance, children allowance,...
Location: Maastricht (live in belgium)
Sector/Industry: Air traffic control
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yep(the after taxes amount is not a mistake), this is only the trainee salary.. Real salarary(net)is more than double to start(this i will probably get in a few months just after i turn 23, we are talking around 10k net). Also a very rewarding job, in my opinion one of the most rewarding that exists. It´s a very unknown job however the selection is accesible to almost everyone. I highly encourage anyone to take a look into this career path. If you have any interest just leave a little comment, i will try to give you a nice answer.
Age: 27
Education: master
Years of experience: 1y
Function: zelfstandig friturist
Monthly salary (before taxes): 8-14k
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3-6k
Extra legal-advantages: company car, phone, internet, mealvouchers,...
Location: Rural West-Flanders
Sector/Industry: horeca
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:
Jip, previous Jr. projectmanager in IT. From 65hrs/w at the old job to 20-25hrs/w. I'm mutch more happier now.
Damn
Does that difference between net/brut account for cost of keeping the frituur running?
Age: 33
Education: Msc in Chemistry
Years of experience: 8
Function: Senior Sales Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): ~7500€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~3800€
Extra legal-advantages: Company car, phone, laptop, Meal vouchers (8€), Group insurance, Hospital Insurance
Location: Brussels region
Sector/Industry: Life Sciences
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, great months bring great rewards. Bosses (+1, +2) are not too happy with some of the bonusses I make though. They are often trying to harvest the credit of my achievements for themselves.
Age: 26
Education: aso - some university classes, but never finished - sommelier degree
Years of experience: 6
Function: self employed restaurant owner
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2584
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1500
Extra legal-advantages: our bv pays our insurances, gas for car, €340 rent for the space it uses in our house. Buy small things on the BV like cleaning products, some food and drinks,...
Location: limburgSector/Industry: horeca
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Eh, when business is going well I work 80/90 hours a week, which is way to much for what I get paid. If I were to just go work for an employer I would make nearly double and wouldn't have to work as much. When business is slow I cannot pay out my salary. Honestly I would never be self employed anymore in horeca. Certainly not at this time. Have to pay €7000 back on taxes this year because we got that 'overbruggingsrecht' when we were forced to close down due to covid.
Age: 32
Education: master of Science in electrical engineering
Years of experience: 10
Function: intermediate repair engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000€ ft, i work 4/5 so 2400€
**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1900€ + 100€ cycling fee
Extra legal-advantages: eco en meal vouchers
Location: East Flanders
Sector/Industry: electronics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: No, i feel like I'm being ripped of by my company and seriously doubt to change this year.
For 10 Years of experience in electrical engineering you are definitely getting ripped off. I highly suggest you to look around and/or talk to some headhunters
Age: 31
Education: Bachelor IT
Years of experience: 6y
Function: CyberSec Consultant
Monthly salary (before taxes): as i'm freelancer there is no one number
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +-6500€
Extra legal-advantages: car, internet/phone, meal vouchers etc.
Location: Brussels area
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes
Age: 30
Education: None I guess, stopped school because I didn't go anyways due to mental health
Years of experience: 0.5
Function: Product expert in electrical distribution
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2700€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1950€
Extra legal-advantages: EOY bonus
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Electricity (?)
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Happy with it, want more though.
Age: 26
Education: TSO - 7th year Chemische Procestechnieken
Years of experience: 3
Function: process operator
Monthly salary (before taxes): 7k-ish
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): About 3.5k + about 15k a year in performance bonusses and vacation pay
Extra legal-advantages: 160-180 food cheques, ecocheques, hospitalisation, dental and eye insurances, e-bike lease, pension fund, couple of other minor things but idk all of them
Location: Gent
Sector/Industry: Chemistry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Would be embarrasing if not
Age: 35
Education: Master of Computer Science
Years of experience: 10
Function: IT Consultant
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4050
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3050
Extra legal-advantages: company car + fuel card + parking card, IP ruling while it lasts (hence the high netto salary), expenses allowance, yearly bonus (if company's profit is high enough), medical insurance, possibility for bike leasing (ca. 30% discount on retail price)
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: IT outsourcing, mainly in government projects
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Due to personal reasons (severe health issues spouse): hardly... my decision is made to change employer once the IP ruling has ended and if my current employer does not compensate at all.
Age: 34
Education: Industrial Engineer IT
Years of experience: 10
Function: Senior software Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3700 (including 200 vaa)
Extra legal-advantages: IP rights, meal vouchers, ecocheques, group insurance, hospital insurance, 13th month
Location: Full time remote
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, definitely.
Age: 32
Education: Electrical Engineering PhD
Years of experience: 8 years relevant experience
Function: R&D engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): €4200
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2600 ~ 2700 (depends on how many days I go by public transport + bicycling)
Extra legal-advantages: Stock options, meal vouchers, phone contract, 13th month, eco cheques, hospitalisation insurance, group/guaranteed income insurance
Location: East Flanders
Sector/Industry: Medical electronics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I can't complain, but it's a bit below what would be considered standard for my background, should be at €5000 gross but accepted this in lieu of the stock options.
Age: 31
Education: PhD in Chemistry; patent attorney qualification
Years of experience: 3.5 in patents
Function: In-house patent officer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4200 EUR
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2500
Extra legal-advantages: Company car + fuel ; phone with data; work from home 3/5; hospitalisation insurance for whole family; meal vouchers; very small amount of eco vouchers. Fresh fruit in the office (but I am only there 2 days a week)
Location: Antwerp (Province)
Sector/Industry: Manufacturing
Are you managing/content with your current income?: I am obviously getting by with my salary (partner has similar income), but I know that I could easily get more in e.g. private practice. However, my experience is that private patent practices are incredibly toxic, hours are terrible, initial pay is not that great, you are basically paying off the partner's Tesla and summer house, etc. So I am very happy with the work I am currently doing, with a lot of responsibilities and at the same time a lot of freedom.
Age: 31
Education: master political science
Years of experience: 7
Function: IT functional consultant
Salary (before taxes): 3970
Salary (after taxes): 2460
Extralegal advantages: company car, meal vouchers, group insurance, hospital insurance, mobile subscription, ecocheques
Location: Antwerp
Sector: IT (SaaS)
Are you getting by? Yes. We are fortunate to just have bought a house with a low fixed rate.
Age: 27
Education: Master in Business Administration
Years of experience: 3
Function: Product Manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2900
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2350
Extra legal-advantages: Car, Fuel Card, Meal Vouchers, Insurances
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, can't really complain!
Did you start in IT as a Product Manager ? it's a career path I would be interested in but I've got more of a technical background with a focus on Business/functional analysis recently.
Ah yes, I had the same idea as you 2 years ago! I actually started working as a FA/BA but I realized pretty quickly that I wanted to be a Product Manager/Product Owner. I actually first did another job as Project Manager, which gave me the confidence that I could handle a job as Product Manager.
Thanks for taking the time to answer ! Yes, I'm really interested in becoming a product owner, having worked in Agile teams before (as a developer and as a FA) and really liked our PO and how he worked. But I'm not too clear on how to bridge that gap between analyst and PM/PO. Did it happen organically for you or did you job hop and interview into that position ?
I did job hop as I felt that the opportunity would never come in my first job as FA. Like you mentioned - the gap was enormous. I got lucky that another company was looking for a Product Manager. You should know that - at least in my experience - being a PO/PM is very far away from all the technical stuff you look into as a FA/BA. It's more business related and you should really start from a business understanding.
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Age: 31
Education: Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
Years of experience: 1.5 ( 9 total)
Function: ICT Expert
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3586,45
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2221.11
Extra legal-advantages: Work laptop, cellphone (max 200, can't pay part myself), "Flexible work hours", WFH (max 2/5), meal vouchers, km, hospital insurance
Location: Flemish Brabant
Sector/Industry: Government ICT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Certainly, changed jobs after a being near a bore-out / in a depression. Got paid more than in my previous function because IT is a niche profession for government. I have 9 years of experience, although my previous experience was as a lab chemist.
Interesting. How did you find an IT job without any experience to begin with?
I was building and tinkering with pc's for the years prior. Learned a lot from YT and I have really good troubleshooting skills.
I showed I could understand difficult concepts and adapt them to our use case. The exams were tough, but I love what I am doing now. I keep learning every day, but I ran the department for about 6 months alone, so I think they made a good choice in me.
Bit late, but for archival reasons, let's add it anyway.
Age: 38
Education: Bachelor ICT
Years of experience: 15
Function: Technical Writer
Monthly salary (before taxes): around €3900
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): around €2550
Extra legal-advantages: laptop, meal vouchers, hospitalization insurance, 13th month, yearly bonus (if company does well), telework compensation, pensiun fund
Location: West-Flanders
Sector/Industry: Technically speaking the metal industry (PC209), but a little more high-tech than just plain metal (lol).
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yeah, definitely. While I graduated as bachelor IT, I got a total burnout from that after i graduated and accidetally got rolled into doing tech writing instead. And while that underpaid severely compared to my peers (started at €1700 gross in '07), I loved doing it (compared to constant coding). So I built experience and hopped jobs a few times. Now I've found myself a job that pays well, where stress/job freedom are decent, where the tech I write for is inspiring and fun, and the location is not too far from where I live. I could always earn more if I wanted, but that would mean sacrificing travel time, personal freedom and increasing stress levels and responsibilities. None of those things sound appealing to me.
Age: 30
Education: BSO
Years of experience: 3 (in IT as full-stack developer)
Function: Senior Software Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3100
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2700
Extra legal-advantages: Electric company car, charging pass, health insurance, 5 extra holidays, laptop, smartphone, phone subscription, reimbursements when purchasing software licenses or subscriptions, education voucher (courses, certification), I can go to a conference once a year and the company will pay for hotel, flight and ticket, yearly company city trip (all inclusive), after work activities, free meals and drinks during the day.
Location: Flanders
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Pretty much. I spend 700/month on rent and food, the rest is split in DCA'ing Bitcoin and putting it in the bank. I think the company really appreciate their employees. So when there is a tight deadline and you need to make a bit of overtime or work in the weekends, it feels like no effort.
Age: 33
Education: BSO, added 7th year
Years of experience: 15
Function: Chemical operator
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5900
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3500
Extra legal-advantages: maaltijdcheques, insurances, free company transportation, cafetariaplan
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Chemistry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Sure, with my wife earning north of 2k we get along pretty well. 2 kids and paying of a new build house we still manage to save 20k+ a year (monthly savings, vacation money, 13th month and some bonusses included). We both have a side hustle as well though (zelfstandige in bijberoep), earning us a couple of k a year.
Age: 33
Education: No higher education that I finished, just highschool graduated.
Years of experience: 7ears of experience
Function: Consultant software tester
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2863 (so high cause of a 22,5% ip rulling)
Extra legal-advantages: Company car / Charge pass /Yearly bonus +-3500 net / Group insurance / hospitality insurance / phone / laptop / internet
Location: i live in Limburg the companies I work for the location changes.
Sector/Industry: It / testing
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I live a frugal lifestyle so i am happy with my current income. I do however see expenses rising so I am Looking forward to finaly getting the indexation in januari.
Age: 29
Education: Bachelor Grafische en digitale media (crossmedia) + Bachelor communicatie management
Years of experience: 7 (overall in graphic design, UX, UI, ...)
Function: UX/UI designer (sometimes Product Owner, when the goal is user/UX-oriented)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2911
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000
Extra legal-advantages: car, fuel card, maaltijdcheques, ecocheques, 13e maand, vakantiegeld + I can do my full time job in 4 days (which leaves me with 1 day per week I can freelance / work on own projects / ...) + our vacation days are kinda flexible, you can take 'as many as you want'
Location: Kortrijk
Sector/Industry: IT/design
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I can manage, but I'm getting a lot of signals (in my freelance environment as well) that I'm underpaid. Also working on a renovation on my own, so to be honest, all money is very very welcome :D
Addition: I'm up for a new job where they are asking my salary expectations (same position), and have no idea what to say. So any indication to what is 'marktconform' would be severely appreciated.
This is certainly on the lower end, good you’re leaving. If there confidence issues I personally recommend Ted Demopolis, he’s in security but his YouTube is gold.
If you do want to continue fulltime, I recommend not negotiating against yourself, ask ex colleagues or random people on LinkedIn what you should ask for. There are apps with communities like fishbowl and blind, but I don’t think those have traction in Belgium
Age:
36
Education:
Professional
Bachelor
MCT
Years of
experience:
13
Function: IT
Consultant &
Team Coach/Chapter
Lead
Monthly
salary (before
taxes): 4750 (incl.
IP rewards,
warrants)
Monthly
salary (after taxes,
including additional
net salary):
3250
Extra
legal-advantages:
car, fuel card,
phone, phone plan,
meal vouchers, eco
vouchers, group
insurance, hosp.
insurance, laptop,
part of my internet
plan is reimbursed,
13th month, yearly
bonus (target
based)
Location:
Leuven
Sector/Industry:
ICT (web full stack)
Age: 29
Education: bachelor (3 years)
Years of experience: 9
Function:Facility Manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150
Extra legal-advantages: meal voucher, car, phone, computer, work clothing, 33 legal days off, health insurance, 3-monthly doctor check up (blood and health), free vaccines
Location: Brussels South
Sector/Industry: pharma company
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: when you can handle your money and aren't getting fooled by advertising that does everything to make you spent more than what you earn (gigantic TV, new phone every year, stupid expensive vacations, credit to buy everything etc...), it's easy to live comfortably.
Age: 27
Education: Master in Business Engineering/Economics
Years of experience: 3.5
Function: Consultant
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3.6k
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.6k
Extra legal-advantages: car, meal vouchers, laptop, phone, …
Location: Brussel
Sector/Industry: Finance
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Managing yes, content no.
If you don't mind me asking, what kind of firm do you work at (big four, small firm in a specific sector, etc)? Studying Business Engineering myself and consulting looked interesting after university.
Big 4 indeed - good guess!
MBB would pay more, but hours would be absurd compared to what I do now.
FYI: I am usually working 09:00 - 18:30
Additionally, if you DM me, I qm open to sending you my LinkedIn for a chat.
Made an anonymous account because my main is a little too recognizable.
Age: 29
Education: Master in Biochemistry & Biotechnology
Years of experience: 4
Function: PhD researcher
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2846.87
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2517.84
Extra legal-advantages: Subscription to public transport to and from work.
Location: I prefer not to disclose.
Sector/Industry: Biochemistry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. Reading through these posts does suggest that I am underpaid for my age and qualifications, but I will probably make up for that after the PhD.
You most likely won't knowing how incompetent the industry is at valuing PhDs.
It depends? STEM PhD's don't earn bad afaik, especially if you land a research related position in pharma (or similar).
Age: 30
Education: TSO, bachelors social work
Years of experience: 7
Function: Team manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): €4150
Monthly salary (after taxes): €2900
Extra legal advantages: €150 Food vouchers/month, €200 ecocheques/year, km vergoeding, group insurance, free health insurance, 13th month, 14th month, cellphone, laptop, extralegal child allowance, double holiday pay.
Location: Ghent
Sector: Social services
Are you managing/content with your current income: I can't complain really. I have the money to support the family, pay the bills, do the occasional vacation, do my hobby.
Nice to see another social worker in here! Been looking around for some comparisons :)
May I ask what type of organisation/sector you work for?
Your monthly salary does surprise me but I'm not really aware of the team lead salaries. Did you also work in the same company as a regular social worker and do you experience much difference in pay?
My rather limited information on social worker pay mostly learns me there are big differences in various sectors and you shouldn't expect big paychecks like some other commenters here with engineering/law jobs. Hence my questions, but I completely understand if you don't want to elaborate further.
Hey there fellow social worker! I work for a mutuality. I did work in the same company as a 'regular' social worker for 6 years prior to my 'promotion'. My last paycheck with 6 years of experience was €3330/month bruto, net was around €2150/month. So there's a €800/month difference there.
There are big differences in pay but don't focus on the paycheck alone. Also look at the extra legal advantages, holidays, ... . Those can differ a lot too depending on which organisation you work with.
A job as a social worker won't make you rich but it's decent pay. Also the meaningfulness of the job is insane with the right mindset.
Thank you for the extra info!
I fully agree with you there are more perks to the job than just making money. If that were the main goal of a social worker, some mistakes were made in the choice of profession :p
However, man's gotta eat. So hence my interest in comparing a bit here and there when presented with the opportunity to do so. My main goal is to be happy, being rich is definetly not a goal on its own here. A decent enough pay is though.
I work in a hospital myself and I've got the feeling our work often doesn't differ that much from the social work in mutualities. Which makes for some nice food for thought!
Age: 27
Education: 7th year Sen-Se in Chemical Processes
Years of experience: 6,4
Function: Chemical Process Operator
Monthly Salary (before taxes): Anywhere between €5700 and €7000 depending on how many days off due to shift work.
Monthly salary after taxes: €3400- €4000
Extra Legals: Maaltijdcheques, Ecocheques, Pension fund Fietslease, CAO90 (~€1600), Hospitalisatieverzekering.
Location: Westerlo
Sector: Chemistry
Age: 32
Education: 4 year bachelor
Years of experience: 9
Function: Supply Chain management
Monthly before: 7,500 ish
Monthly net: around 3,600
Extra legal advantages: possible huge bonus 75k in 2021 expecting around 35-40k this year, many years nothing. Meal vouchers, company car around 1,100 per month, gym and all the healthcare stuff.
Location: Vlaams Brabant
Industry: FMCG
Am I managing? Yeah but shit was expensive this year so looking forward to indexation and things to calm the fuck down.
interesting, what's the role? some kind of director or managing partner?
No Mid/ mid-upper management- it’s a very large FMCG multinational head quartered in Belgium…. I’m sure you can guess it.
Age: 30
Education: None
Years of experience: 3
Function: consultant Helpdesk agent gor the European commission
Monthly salary (before taxes): no idea
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ≈1900
Extra legal-advantages: nope
Location: bruxelles
Sector/Industry: informatics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: not sure what this means
If you are working for a third party, ask for a raise. They are billing at least 300-350/day to the Commission.
I'm not sure how that would work with this company mostly as this is a "fourth party" Me -> company 1 -> company 2 -> client subsection -> real client
And i think company 2 would be the one charging 300+€
but I'll definitively will check on that
Age: 35 Education: Bachelor degree Mechanical engineering
Years of experience: 12 years
Function: education - graduatie degrees & bachelors
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2,800
Extra legal-advantages: nothing special, but more holidays than most, laptop, repayment of train/Bike rides, a lot of free machines at my disposal
Location: Ghent
Sector/Industry: education
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: no
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: no
why not? Because, relatively speaking, that net salary is nothing to sneeze at.
Not really taught about it and I’m spending investments in my home (sonar-panels, warmtepomp, etc).
Age - 44 Education - Law Function - general counsel Monthly salary - 15000 Net - around 7000 Advantages - electric company car, phone, laptop, health insurance, hospital insurance, pension fund, stocks, iPad, bonus.
I manage.
Age: 31
Education: Uni dropout
Yeas of experience: 11
Function: Retail work in a grocery store
Monthly salary before taxes: €2530' ish
Monthly salary after taxes: 1950'ish.
Extra
legal-advantages:
meal vouches
(5€/day), early/late
hours paid more,
13th and 14th month
pay (vakantiegeld),
hospitalisation
insurance,
km-vergoeding,
profit
participation. €35 a
month in discounts
on shopping within
shops of the group
my store belongs
to.
All in all,
if we add up all
those monthly extras
my net per month is
a little above 2k.
Location: Lier
Sector/Industry: Sales/Retail
Are you managing: Yes. We can't save much but we're happy where we are now and with what we have. (we rent) Biggest thing which would cut costs for me would be my car, although both me and my girlfriend need it for work-related circumstances. (self-employed as secondary occupation)
Age: 36
Education: Specialist in Information Security (Master not recognized in BE)
Years of experience: 13 years
Function: Manager in IT (ITAM)
Monthly salary (before taxes): € 4 800
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): € 3 200
Extra legal-advantages: car+fuel, lunch cheques, prepaid phone plan, group insurance, medical insurance (opted out), unpredictable bonus
Location: Brussels (rand)
Sector/Industry: Global retail business
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Very happy with the job I do, considering I was lucky enough to end up outside my home country. I am not happy with the income at all, though. I am the only breadwinner in our household of four (my partner cannot work), we rent our place, the price increases for everything make our disposable income negative this year. Honestly, I am very stressed, since we have no financial net (it was burn back in 2020 when I lost my previous job due to covid crisis).
Age: 37
Education: Master
Years of experience: 14
Function: Accountant
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3800
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2550-2600
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, group insurance, hospital insurance, salary car, fuel card
Location: West-Flanders
Sector/Industry: Construction
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I could earn more with my knowledge/education, but I don't have the ambition. I like my work/life balance right now. We noticed our savings weren't exactly increasing as much as usual, but we manage better now with a little more hands on approach.
Age: 33
Education: Master in Law, MBA, CFA, Bachelor Marketing
Years of experience: 9 in this specific sector
Function: (co-)business owner of a real estate development firm and startup Family Office. Cryptocurrency ETF on the side.
Monthly salary and equivalents
- I have an r/C in favor of my private person for EUR 200.000 from the top holding company (above the real estate firms). This can be used for tax free income or to enjoy 4,07% interests a year at 30% RV. As this credit rate might rise quite a bit next January due to rising interest rates in general I am waiting it out to decide whether to get that EUR 200.000 (or part of it) tax free instead of wages/invoices or keep it there to get the interests at 30% RV tax rate which is still quite low taxed.
- Up until now I got about EUR 6.250 + EUR 250 onkosten + maaltijdcheques from the company that only does projects under registration fees (so no VAT number which makes invoicing from management company a bad idea) with the intention to make it easier to get a private loan to build a new house. Once the loan is signed the bank doesn't really care anymore and I can optimize my income with regards to taxes again. I'm currently finalizing the conversations with different banks and in January I will probably cut back this income to EUR 3.000 a month in favor of other more tax-friendly sources of income.
- EUR 4.000 of which a part in auteursrechten from my eenmanszaak for creative copy work for the various businesses
- EUR 3.000 as fixed monthly bestuurdersfee for the managementvennootschap
- EUR 4.000 from the passively running crypto fund. That's a long term average as I'm not making any money at all recently for obvious reasons.
About EUR 100.000 in dividends a year on average from the top holding taxed according to VVPR bis at 15%.
Alltogether that means around 15-16k nett per month or close to 200k per year over the longer term, but as you can see above it greatly varies on which type of income is chosen and dividends are of course not a fixed monthly income.
During years of investment there are no dividends which cuts the monthly nett income in half.
Extra legal-advantages: All the grey zone sjoemeling that comes with the nametag. No heavy fraud or businesses in Panama but I'll admit that a piece of marble bought by the business could get lost in my house.
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Construction/finance/family offices
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:
Sure. It is hard to keep it up though as there is never any guarantee for the future and my baby daughter is consuming more and more (fun) time. I essentially have to put in the same effort while my available time is cut in half and I feel it has been taking its toll with regards to stress on my body in the last year so I'll have to work on that.
Age:
38
Education:
Master of Science in
Tourism
Years
of
experience:
14
Function:
business
owner
Monthly
salary (before
taxes):
6700€
Monthly
salary (after
taxes, including
additional net
salary):
4900€
Extra
legal-advantages:
Expensed to the
company: car, home
office rent, cell
phone, home
internet, restaurant
visits. Extended
health and dental
benefits. Some free
travel through
accumulating a large
amount of credit
card points from
business
expenses.
Location:
Vancouver,
Canada
Sector/Industry:
Hospitality
Are
you getting
managing/content
with your
current
income?:
Yes. Sometimes I
wish I had a normal
job but most of the
time being
self-employed is
pretty awesome.
After 10 years in
business things are
pretty well oiled
and manageable. I
enjoy the
flexibility that
comes with it and
the few weeks of
time off we can
finally take. I'm
hoping to grow the
company a bit more
in the near future
because the cost of
living in Vancouver
is insane. Our
household income is
pretty much mine x 2
as my wife co-owns
the business. Yet we
only just managed to
buy an apartment.
We'd love to buy a
house in the next
decade but we'll
have to increase our
income in order to
do so.
Age: 22
Education: ASO, bachelor degree in social work, studying to get my masters degree in social work
Years of experience: 0,5 years internship, stuck around and been working here since 06/2021. Total of nearly 2 years.
Function: Social worker
Monthly salary (before taxes): +- 1050. (33% jobtime to combine with studies at 50%). The other 17% is my spare time aka chill, fitness, weed and BAM: more schoolwork (obviously), because there are always deadlines creeping about.
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +-1000-1030. Small difference possible due to km compensation I get, I work at 3 different locations for my employer.
Extra legal-advantages: None, student contract. But hey I pay 2,71% taxes so that is an advantage. While maintaining child support.
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Healthcare -social service department of a hospital.
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: That's allright. I pay my own living with my salary so rather self-suficcient but I like it that way. Because of my situation I applied for a fat juicy scholarship which I'm currently awaiting. Thank you taxpayers for saving my ass <3
Some doctors and patients make me go absolutely nuts. But other than that I love social work and I love my job. For you nice people out there: you make me love my job.
Oh don’t get me started, doctors are generally some of the dumbest smart people I know….
Age: 27
Education: IT Bachelor
Years of experience:2
Function: Fullstack Developper
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2215
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 22500
Extra legal-advantages: Car, oil card, chèque repas, insurance group
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Software development
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm getting a bit discontent with my salary. Developer in Belgium are highly underpaid compared to international market.. Like.. Yhea 2250net is good, but I could get so much more more in another country. And yhea I've got the car benefit, but I almost not use it. Like.. I maybee refill the tank 1times every 2months ?
Age: 19
Education: kindergarten
Years of experience: 0
Function: truth teller and part-time Redditor
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 5000 (including real and imaginary extra benefits + miscalculations)
Extra legal-advantages: more than you
Location: in my bed
Sector/Industry: chemicals
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am if you are not
Age: 31
Education: Master Civil Engineering
Years of experience: 8
Function: Team lead
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4700
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2700
Extra legal-advantages: Car, fuel card, phone voucher, sim card, eco cheques, hospital insurance,
Location: East Flanders
Sector/Industry: Energy
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yea, but expecting a raise regardless of the high inflation.
Age:
28
Education:
civil engineering -
architecture
Years
of experience:
3
Function:
Project
lead
Monthly
salary (before
taxes):
3600
Monthly
salary (after taxes,
including additional
net salary): +-
2350
Extra
legal-advantages:
company car with
fuel card, hospital
insurance,
retirement savings
of 75 eur/month,
iPhone, 6 eur net
per worked day, eco
cheques
Location:
Antwerp
Sector/Industry:
Construction
Are
you getting
managing/content
with your current
income?: I'm
definitely happy
with my income,
certainly with the
approaching
indexation. However
my job does come
with some stress,
fixed holidays
(bouwverlof) and
long hours that
warrant the rather
high salary. Even
though I like my
job, it is a tiring
combination of
overseeing workers
that start before
7AM while the
administrative work
needs to be done
later in the day.
Age: 33 Education: Masters degree YOE: 7 Function: self employed Before texes: 6000 After taxes: 2700-3000 Extra legal : None (author rights?) Sector : creative
Age : 51 Education : Masters Years of experience : 28 Function : Independent project manager Monthly salary (before taxes) : 20000 BV / 5500 personal Monthly salary (after taxes incl other net) 3050 Extra legal advantages : Car, gas card, cable, utilities, laptop, mobile phone, parking card, newspaper, health insurance, travel insurance Location : Antwerpen Sector : Pharma Are you managing : happily managing
Age: 27
Education: Master of Science in Elec. systems and circuits (burgerlijk ingenieur)
Years of experience: 4 year
Function: Engineer
Monthly salary (bruto): 5050
Monthly salary (net):~3300 (huwelijksquotient met phd student)
Legal advantages: Company car (no fuel card with cafetariaplan) + 160 meal cheques, internet paid for
Location: Antwerp, chemical industry
Im happy with my current job, lots of opportunities and very nice benefits. Bureaucracy of a large company is sometimes challenging and tedious.
Age: 37
Education: Master in Criminology
Years of experience: almost 10 in my current job
Function: social inspector
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5.068,04 €
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3020,05 €
Extra legal-advantages: The standard Federal civil servant ones; no meal vouchers
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Federal public administration
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes I am comfortable.
Age: 29
Education: Masters degree
Years of experience: 6
Function: Global engineering
Monthly salary before taxes: 6070
Monthly salary after taxes: 3340 (+ yearly bonus if targets achieved + overal good year for the company ranging between 12 to 25k gross
Extra-legal advantages: meal vouchers, ecocheques, hospitalisation insurance, …
Location: Leuven
Industry/Sector: FMCG
Managing with current income: Yes. It’s a quite demanding job with long hours and high stake projects with a constant requirement to proof yourself but I feel incredibly blessed to earn this amount of money at my age. While I sometimes dread going to work - like most - I do enjoy my job. It’s challenging but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Age: 28
Education: High School
Years of experience: 5
Function: Product Owner (consultant)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3100
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2900 (including copyright compensation, net allowance, 550net for not taking the company car)
Extra legal-advantages: Insurance, phone, meal vouchers
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm definitely managing but I think I could still negotiate for more or greatly increase my income by going freelance.
Age: 30
Education: bachelor of science, biotech
Years of experience: 8
Function: admin support
Monthly salary (before taxes): €3.145
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2.105
Extra
legal-advantages:
pensionplan,
hospital insurance,
laptop,
ecovouchers.
Edit:
36 days off + extra
holidays.
Location: Gent
Sector/Industry: Biotech
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I was happy until I saw this thread. Very low mortgage though so can't complain.
Would love to see other cybersecurity people comment here!
Age: 31
Education: Bachelor of computer science
Years of experience: 10
Function: cybersecurity consultant
Monthly Salary: 4700
Monthly salary after taxes: 3112 (+ one month netto revenue based bonus, includes; representation, homeworkig, 15% intellectual property)
Extralegal advantages: company car in 45k range, car insurance + Petrol card, 160 meal vouchers, 250 eco vouchers, hospitalisation insurance, conference and training budget, phone + subscription
Location: within Flanders depending on the client, 60% home work
Sector: professional services
Are you getting content with your current income?: No, I’m not benefiting from the tax system in the way that a family man is, so it feels like a transfer of wealth from me to the healthcare, education, and pension systems. I rarely need healthcare, I was educated abroad, and my elders live abroad.
I’m treated like a wealthy person, yet the reality is most banks refuse to fund a mortgage, and the ones that do, gouge me on the interest as there’s little alternative As a result, I rent, and put my savings into an emergency fund, and invest what’s left in ETFs r/befire
Companies are welling to pay more but are unable to as there’s a tax ceiling designed to make Belgium competitive relative to the EU.
My peers who left to the US are paid in the 200k-300k+ a year range.
freelance is the way to go, no idea why a cybersecurity dude with 10 years experience is working as a wage slave. As you said it, you hit that 4500 - 5000 gross salary where companies are only going to give you the yearly 0,2% of salary increase because of the insane taxes. Start a bv and start working self employed, it is the only way forward in Belgium for people like me and you in IT. Or you can move to the US and become a Silicon Valley wage slave.
Age: 24
Education: Master’s degree
Years of experience: 1.5
Function: Financial analyst
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2300€
Monthly salary (after taxes): €1950
Extra-legal advantages: car, fuel, maaltijdchèques, ecochèques, health insurance, telework allowance (150/month), phone subscription (50/month), iPhone
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Finance
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 24
Education: Master in Law + Master in ICT Law
Years of experience: 1
Function: Cybersecurity consultant
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2050ish (includes net + 100 representation allowance + 160 meal vouchers in cash)
Extra legal-advantages: Company car + fuel, phone + subscription , hospital insurance, retirement fund, 13th month, ecocheques once a year
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: IT/banking
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yeah it's good for now as it's my first job and I've only had it for one year (especially the car is nice to have). I'm hoping in the future they'll give me more responsibilities and a better wage.
Age: 31
Education: Masters of engineering
Years of experience: 5
Function: Sustainability consultant in the building sector
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2800 euros for a 4/5
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2063 euros
Extra legal-advantages: chèques repas, pension fund, company bike, Alan health insurance, subscription to headspace, and I'm probably forgetting some
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: The carbon market
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I was until I realized that I can make 3 times my gross income by working half of that if I become independant. It really puts a lot in perspective..
Age: 35
Education: A2 Elektrotechniek
Years of experience: 17
Function: Onderhoudstechnieker
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5600€ (km vergoeding + on call for a week every month = 1600€)
Monthly salary (after taxes): 3500€ (wife ten laste) (on call for a week = 500-600€)
Extra legal advantages: pensioensparing, good ziekteverzekering
Location: Antwerp
Sector: Water
Yes I manage with my income.
Age: 36
Education: ASO
Years of experience: 12 years with the firm, 1 year experience with the job
Function: Logistics manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): +/- 4800
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +/- 2800
Extra legal-advantages: car, laptop, gsm, eco-cheques, pension fund, hospitalisation insurance, guarenteed income insurance, meal vouchers 8€, 13th month
Location: West Flanders
Sector/Industry: Construction
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 22
Education: Master in Political Sciences: European & International Governance
Years of experience: 0
Function: Admissions coordinator at a university
Monthly salary (before taxes): €2900
Monthly salary (after taxes, incl. additional net salary): €1900
Extra legal advantages: 15 additional paid days off, public transport subscription, eco-vouchers, discount for any children wishing to study at the university in question
Location: Brussels Capital Region
Sector/Industry: Administration/Education
Are you managing/content with your current income?: I got lucky to renew a rental contract for student accommodation while finishing up my thesis, which allows me to have a small flat with all costs included at low rent. This will allow me to save up for the future, while I am currently on the lookout for a job that's more in my field of expertise.
Age: 32
Education: Bachelor Multimedia Productie
Years of experience: 8
Function: Frontend developer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3580
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2150
Extra legal-advantages: Company car + fuel card, meal vouchers, eco cheques, mobile phone, laptop, internet subscription, phone subscription, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, 13th month, performance bonus (not this year because of the recession)
Location: Gent with main office in Antwerpen (4/5 work from home)
Sector/Industry: Educational IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Live together with my SO and my SO makes around 2700 net, so yeah pretty happy.+ indexation and 3 % raise next year will bump this up quite nicely
Age: 27
Educations: engineering Masters
Yoe: 5 years
Function: project manager
Monthly salary before taxes: 4343 eur
Monthly after taxes (without meal vouchers, 13th month etc): 2580 eur
Extra legal: hospitalization, group insurance, holiday pay, 13th month, meal vouchers (8,5/day), leasing a bike currently, yearly bonus (2 to 4.5 k brut) and pay for patents (1k brut per year)
Location: Flanders
Industry: automotive
I’m content, currently working towards a bigger promotion/salary increase.
Age: 25
Education: BSO 7 jaar kantoor
Years of experience: 5
Function: driver
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000-3500 (various always)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1800-2100 (note that I work 80%) fulltime would be around 2200-2300 + vakantiegeld ongv 4000-5000 euro
Extra legal-advantages: hospitalisatieverzekering, maaltijdcheques, groepskortingen bij partners, goedkope verzekeringen, genoeg stakingsdagen
Location: Adinkerke (coast)
Sector/Industry: public transport
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: meer dan gelukkig, als ik eens zin heb om wat extra te werken word dit ook dubbel betaald, net als de zondagen die ook standaard dubbel betaald zijn.
Age: 40
Education: Highschool (TSO)
Years of experience: +/- 15 in my field
Function: Functional IT support (level 2)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3.569,40
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.408,40
Extra legal-advantages: Transport fee, €100 net expenses, meal vouchers, internet, hospital insurance.
Location: W-VL
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I took a pay cut for this job, but quality of life made it worth it. Still content. Would like a company car.
Age: 23, 24 next month
Education: didn't finish, no CESS, did a 2 year ipeps IT formation
Years of experience: 1 1/2
Function: Site IT & Junior JDE Finance analyst
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3300
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400
Extra legal-advantages: like 150 bucks a month of edenred ticket for groceries, DKV insurance, a few, other stuff but I said no to company car.
Location: Liège
Sector/Industry: IT, work for a paper company
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yeah I'm good
Age: 28
Education: high school
Years of experience: 2
Function: Warehouse customer support
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2300
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2060
Extra legal-advantages: Skoda Octavia full option, unlimited fuel in Belgium, Eco + meal checques, Iphone 14 pro and phonesubscription, insurance, pension saving
Location: East-Flanders
Sector/Industry: Transport
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: No but I should
Age: 34 Education: bachelor years of experience: 8 Function: operations management + BPO Monthly salary (before taxes): €5800 Monthly salary net: €3400 (3200 + 200 KEW) Extra legal advantages: meal vouchers, medical insurance, group insurance, company car + unlimited fuel card (actually charging card since it’s EV) Location: West-Vlaanderen Sector: chemical industry
Age: 29
Education: Master's
Years of experience: 5ish
Function: Policy Advisor
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4400e
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2680e
Extra legal-advantages: 8e lunch vouchers, 250e ecocheques, 150e consumptiecheques, 60e WFH allowance, monthly MOBIB paid, work phone, 13th month, yearly bonus linked to appraisal, pension fund, hospitalization + dental insurance.
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: EU affairs/energy and climate
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am managing, but I think I am at this stage a bit underpaid with the level of responsibilities I have taken on in 2022. If I were to shift organization I think I would have a salary + title boost for sure. Other than that I love my organization for the most part, and I have a great management team which seems to be rare. Work life balance is generally respected and number of holidays per year is nice.
I know it is a shitty thing to say these days but I would really like to have a little EV/PHEV company car for my free time use - going for hikes, random trips to smaller villages that are hard to reach by transit, that sort of thing. Otherwise I go everywhere else by bike and I would never commute by car (it would take me probably 45+ minutes compared to the 15 min on bike).
Age: 24
Education: Professional bachelor in Electronics-ICT
Years of experience: 1.5
Function: Test Engineer/Analyst, mostly Analyst. Consultant.
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2330 (€199 extra netto)
Extra legal-advantages: 8 euro/day Meal vouchers, Company car with unlimited personal use and fuel card, FIP plan, 15€ Mobile phone abonnement, 20€ internet compensation per month, DKV hospital insurance for myself and my wife/children.
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: IT consultancy SW/HW testing
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:salary is in line with what is good for the function. Apparently I was the only person who got a raise when in service for 1 year, that mostly doesn't happen, not really content with the company I work with, policies are not encouraging loyalty to the company since nowhere is mentioned 'ancienniteit' except for 1 extra free day/5 years of service. Currently just building up my resume and salary and within a couple years I can make the switch to another company, loyalty sadly usually isn't rewarded in comparison with job hopping every x years.When inflation hits in January that will also be a nice extra.
Age: 31
Education: secondary school 7th year professionnel (CESS)
Years of experience: 10 years
Function: Manufacturing Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3700
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2500
Extra legal-advantages: 8€ food-cheques, 13th month, hospital insurance, group insurance, phone + subscription and laptop.
Location: Zaventem
Sector/Industry: Aeronautics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Considering i don't have a uni degree, i climbed the ladder in the same company from blue collar to engineer position in 8 years by proving my abilities on the field (i am a woman btw, its like a game set on hard mod for me). I am very happy that hard work pays off my bills and my decent quality of life.
Edit : spelling
Age: 29
Education: Master of Laws + Master of Biotechnology
Years of experience: 3
Function: Legal counsel - contract manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5600
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3200
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, eco cheques, insurances, phone, internet bill covered, performance bonus, additional retirement plan, occasional cash bonuses
Location: East Flanders
Sector/Industry: Pharmaceutical
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I managed to get myself a nice thriving position with a good salary package. I am not expecting to leave anytime soon especially since I have a lot of development opportunities internally.
Age: 37
Education: BSO verkoop vertegenwoordiging
Years of experience: 6 (in IT in general, 5.5 years as support)
Function: system administrator (just started)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3900
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2500
Extra legal-advantages: maaltijdchecks, pensioensparen, ziekenhuis verzekering
Location:
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Well just made a step up and it certainly is a nice change of pace, super happy
Age: 33
Education: Master degree in Linguistics
Years of experience: 5 (worked in retail and marketing for a while before this)
Function: teacher full time at a high school plus overtime at a night school
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5300 (3800 at 100% 5300 at 140% of a full time)
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Christmas and vacation bonus of about 3000 each
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3500
Extra legal-advantages: NMBS abonnement, 14 weeks paid vacation + federal holidays
Location: Antwerp province
Sector/Industry: Education
Are you getting managing content with your current income?: somewhat, single earner household with kids
Age: 27
Education: ASO
Years of experience: 6
Function: havenarbeider Markeur
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3000 (varies between 2800-3100)
Extra legal-advantages: transportvergoeding, 13de maand, niet-recurrente premie van 1300 euro, hospitalisatieverzekering
Location: Zeebrugge
Sector/Industry: logistics
Yes to managing content
Happy with my work, happy with my wages wouldn't do anything else :)
Age: 31
Education: multiple masters (4+)
Years of experience: 10 / 6 in my current field.
Function: Specialist
Monthly salary before taxes: EU + other small gigs (teaching, and other stuffs) EU: 6500 / other gigs: 750
Location: Brussels
Monthly salary after taxes: around 5,4k for EU and 400 for other gigs = 5800 total.
Extra legal advantages: Phone, laptop.
Sector: EU / Teaching / other.
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes because I’m comfortable, but still trying to figure out how to quickly reach 10k netto - feels like an never ending story ;-).
3rd and 4th were just overkill, but i like learning, i will probably never stop, it’s more of a side hobby at this point.
Age: 46
Education: Bachelor Chemistry
Years of experience: 25
Function: Lab technician
Monthly salary (before taxes): +-4000 (@4/5 ouderschapsverlof)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +-2600
Extra legal-advantages: Pension fund, hospitalisation, eco- and meal vouchers, collective bonuses,13th month, RVA (ouderschapsverlof)...
Location: Limburg area
Sector/Industry: Chemical industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:
It's a 9 to 17 job with (in theory) flexible hours. I work with highly toxic, flammable, carcinogenic stuff.. but i feel safe. Sometimes it can be stressy with a crazy work rythm, almost no margin for even little errors and with daily deadlines.
I don't think I have much to complain with my monthly salary, but at the end of the month I can feel the impact of the crisis vs previous years (wife changed to half time with a 'bijberoep' and needs to find some more clients to earn as much as before)
Age: 27
Education: Bachelors Engineering (E&E)
Years of experience: 2 in BE, roughly 2 in ZA
Function: Consultant (Test Engineering/QA)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3200
Monthly salary (after taxes): 2315
Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel card (BE), maaltijdcheques, group health & hospitalisation insurance, company cellphone (latest iPhone 14), IP Reward, referral bonuses
Location: Flanders
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, though I fear it will take a dent if IPR is scrapped - I just changed jobs for the improved salary and may have to play hardball for a raise if I don’t want that undone
Age: 35
Education: Bachelor degree
Years of experience: 13 years
Function: Business manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4407 euro
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2524,76 euro
Extra legal-advantages: Tesla model 3 , Meal cheque 8 euro/day , Health insurance , up to 8% of yearly wage in bonus
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: E-mobility
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am happy at the moment as my salary will rise again in january 23 by 10% due to inflation although my job is very stressful and has long hours I consider myself lucky.
Age:
26
Education: TSO
+ 2 years of Syntra
education (many
failed years of
collage and retail
job went before
this)
Years of
experience: Started
last
may
Function:
Digital
Designer
Monthly
salary (before
taxes): 2200
euro
Monthly
salary (after taxes,
including additional
net salary): 1980
euro or
something
Extra
legal-advantages:
Laptop, work from
home bonuses, meal
vouchers, eco
vouchers, a lot of
insurances, soon a
cafetariaplan will
be added, end of
year bonus,
sectorbonus, they
pay 20 euro of my
internet
subscription, almost
complete remote
work.
Location:East-Flanders
Sector/Industry:
E-Mobility
Are
you getting
managing/content
with your current
income?: Pretty
happy with what I
make, it's a great
company with great
collegues, feel
pretty appreciated.
I live together with
my partner in a
metropolitan area,
so rent is pretty
high, and indexation
doesn't help. Just
got a dog too,
that's a big
financial burden at
the moment. But
besides all that,
i'm pretty happy
with what i'm paid
Age: 35
Education: None, dropped out of high school
Years of experience: 12 years in IT (infra & dev), 6 months as DevOps engineer
Function: DevOps Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): €4250
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2850
Extra legal-advantages: company car, fuel/charging card, internet and phone bill paid by employer, free lunch at office, pension fund, hospitalization insurance
Location: Antwerp (Province)
Sector/Industry: IT Consulting
**Are you getting by
/ managing / content
with your current
income?:**Yes to all
three, although I
know I could earn
more by going
freelance. However,
I recently switched
from infra engineer
to devops since I
wanted to do
something new.I took
a small gross pay
cut but got a lot of
extra benefits like
a company car in
return. So in the
end I'm actually
better off now than
before, which I
hadn't expected.I
was convinced I'd
have to give up more
pay in order to make
this
switch.
Anyway,
the plan is to do
this for a year or
two, to get some
experience in the
devops field, and
then go freelance.
Age: 29
Education: Master in Economics, working on postgraduate degree
Years of experience: 5
Function: Manager in Management Consulting
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3200
Extra legal-advantages: holiday pay, 13th month, bonus of € ~ 15.000, car + fuel card, iphone + subscription, eco cheques, hospitalisation, bunch of insurances,…
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Management Consulting
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Happier with every promotion and I feel really appreciated at my current job.
Age : 26
Education : Masters degree in aeronautical engineering
Years of experience : 3
Function : Mechanical engineer in Liège
Monthly salary before taxes : 3650€
Monthly salary after taxes : 2450€
Monthly equivalent (after taxes) of yearly income, including performance bonus and company benefits : 3150€
Avantages : meal vouchers, health insurance, home Internet
Sector : Aerospace
Content : yes
Age:
30
Education:
TSO
Years of
experience:
9
Function:
System
Engineer
Monthly salary
(before
taxes):
4100
Monthly salary
(after taxes,
including additional
net salary):
2500
Extra
legal-advantages:
Cellphone,
laptop, Mobi budget
(900 euro)
Location:
BXL
Sector/Industry:
IT
Are you getting
managing/content
with your current
income?:
Yes
fun fact. If you work >50% from home you can use your Mobi budget to pay your mortgage so that's an extra 900 euro net.
Age: 29
Education: Master in Applied Economics (TEW)
Years of experience: 6
Function: Finance Manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5,867.
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3,317
Extra legal-advantages: hospitalisation, group insurance, bonus system (between 20% to 40%), laptop and phone
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: FMCG
Are you getting managing/content with your current income? While I shouldn’t complain, I still earn less then my peers plus the demands for the job are high. The potential bonus is the money maker, but makes the job quite stressful. In all honesty, I would prefer working for myself and starting my own company.
Age 25
Education TSO + Military Tech sgt.
Years of expierence 6
Current job government admin + privat chauffeur for gov official
Before Taxes +/- 3450eur After taxes +/- 2350eur
Extra benefits smartphone and simcard
Sector gov
Location Leuven
No problems so far payin my bills and saving some money.
Age: 36
Education: Civil and industrial engineer in construction
Years of experience: 10 years of experience
Function: Studie-ingenieur; live streamer and "content" creator and investor
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5.5k from my main job + 2,5k from "content" creation
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): around 4.5k
Extra legal-advantages: meeting other content creators
Location: Home/Brussels
Sector/Industry: Civil engineering
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:it's ok, not as much as my friends make
Age: 27
Education: Master in Commercial Sciences
Years of experience: 4
Function: Business Controller
Monthly salary (before taxes): € 4.500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): € 2.700 (= € 2.500 + € 200 net allowance)
Extra legal-advantages: Daily allowances for days abroad + meal vouchers + company car + charging card (electric) + insurance package
location: 30% at headquarters in Antwerp + 70% locations worldwide
Sector/Industry: Real estate
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, being away from home for longer periods isn't easy while being in a relationship. But the extra pay really helps for saving up for a down payment.
Age: 29
Education: don't have any diploma, stopped school at 5th secondary
Years of experience: 7 years as seller ( D2D, B2B, store ) / 6 months in actual job
Function: CSP / ICT Operator
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2100€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1800€
Extra legal-advantages: Fuel card
Location: Hainaut
Sector/Industry: Cloud services
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm actually ok with my salary because my boss trusted my skills and gived me a chance even if i never performed any job in cloud services, i learned by myself to be there. Second reason why i'm ok with it is that in 2018 i started to be independant with an associate for a Dance Club and 1 year after, my associate rip off me while i was in hospital for an operation, he leaved the country with all the money, he was in charge of the administrative in our business but he lied to me and never did anything, i was young and he took advantage of that, i had to pay everything alone after he leaved, assuming everything alone with really big things to pay i loosed everything i builded in my life, even my fiance leaved me. Now i'm almost out of my debts but it was really hard for the past 3 years. I really thanks my actual boss for the chance he gived to me because now i do a job that i love, if anybody is passing trough a hard time, hang on there is always a way to get out the shitstorm !
Age: 39
Education: HBO in accounting
Years of experience: 10 in my current domain, 7 at my current employer
Fuction: deskundige software SAP
Monthly salary (before taxes): € 4.967,29
Monthly salary (after taxes): € 2.800 (roughly, there could be as much as € 100 extra when I use my bike to get to work)
Extra legal-advantages: pension plan, health insurance, corporate benefits platform, free unlimited use of De Lijn, TEC and MIVB, meal vouchers, mobile phone
Location: Flanders, but mostly Gent and home
Sector/Industry: Public transportation
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, of course I feel the rising energy prices but I realise that there are many people that have to make do with a lot less. I know that I'm in a luxury position because the mortgage on my appartment is only € 200 a month but I did work hard to be where I am today. I didn't go to college, got my HBO in night school and for my current job I was supposed to have a masters degree. Luckily by taking a "niveauproef" and an assessment and having a good interview I was able to land the job.
200 euro mortgage?
Bought cheap? or some structure where youre nearing the end of mortgage?
When I bought the place almost 6 years ago my monthly payments were almost € 700 a month. But my father passed away some time ago so when my grandmother passed away 2 years ago me and my siblings inherited instead of my father. I used the money to pay of a large part of the mortgage leaving just enough to still make full use of the "woonbonus". And because of the reforms in the "woonbonus" leaving € 42.000 in the mortgage was enough for that.
Age: 36
Education: Master in biomedical engineering
Years of experience: 8
Function: Data scientist
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3000
Extra legal-advantages: Car, meal voucher
Location: Flanders
Sector/Industry: Medical
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I want more and want to evolve quickly. So I am doing consultancy and other job during my spare time. For my lifestyle (I am not a money burner) it is ok. I can save a little bit more than half of my income (by reimbursing the credit for my own house=investing, and saving on my bank account).
Age: 32
Education: ASO + intern courses for the company
Years of experience: 12
Function: Key user Sales
Monthly Salary before taxes: 3277 (bruto)
Monthly Salary after taxes: 2611 (including bonusses)
Extra legal advantages: allowance/kilometre, meal vouchers, monthly extra expenses paid back (declaration)
Location: Sint-Denijs-Westrem
Sector/Industry: Retail for sleeping / boxsprings etc
Are you getting managing/content with your current income: I get paid quite well for the sector I'm in. I could be always better though. Hard to save money because of buying a house with al the necesseties.
Age: 35
Education: professional bachelor
Years of experience: 5 (in current field)
Function: software test engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +/- 2300€
Extra legal-advantages: yearly bonus (about 3k net), car+ fuel, phone, insurance ..
Location: Ghent
Sector/Industry: IT, public sector
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 23
Education: bachelor sureveyor (vastgoed: Landmeten)
Years of experience: 1
Function: Surveyor
Monthly salary (After taxes): €2300 .
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers 160, ecocheques, mobile phone + mobile plan (unlimited mobile data), car (Volkswagen Passat), Diesel.
Location: West-Flanders
Sector/Industry: infrastructure
Are you getting managing/content with your current salary?: I'm still under intrim contract, don't know how to feel about it :/. It's just weird because my boss pays a lot more for me than if he would just give me a contract.
Age: 30
Education: MPH
Years of experience: ~5 in 3 different fields
Function: Product Analyst/Manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3838
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2300-2500 depending on the month.
Extra legal-advantages: Car, fuel, health insurance, group insurance (pension), 13th month, meal cheques, discount from a bunch of stores. More advantages you can pay for using your yearly bonus.
Location: Ghent/Brussels
Sector/Industry: IT (Manufacturing)
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes! I will go for more soon but content for now :)
Age: 41
Education: ASO
Years of experience: 20
Function: Sales manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5000 + bonus between 15 and 30%
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2800 ( including bonus, 13th month and vacation, I have between 3600 and 4000€/month)
Extra legal-advantages: car, phone, mealcheques, hospitalisation, pensionplan, hybrid working
Location: Leuven
Sector/Industry: Metal
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:
Age: 23
Education: Master of Political Science
Years of experience: 1
Function: policy agent
Monthly salary before taxes: 3500eur
Monthly salary after taxes: 2700
Extra legal advantages: none
Location: Brussels
Sector: defence and space industry
Managing with income: yes, even get to save a fair bit
Age: 34
Education: lagere school
Years of experience: 7
Function: IT Support
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2000
Extra legal-advantages: BMW 1 series, meal vouchers, phone plan
Location: Mechelen
Sector/Industry: IT Support
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: If I didn't live together with my wonderful also IT worker gf I would be currently still be living in a 20m2 studio 30m from the spoorlijn antwerpen-brussel and be slowly going insane from the noise and nightly gunshots.
We save around 600 per month together
Age: 23
Education: master degree in electromechanical engineering
Years of experience: 0
Function: Process engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3100
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2050
Extra legal-advantages: Food vouchers, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, mobile phone, company car (BMW X1).
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: Chemical
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I'm very happy to have this wage as a fresh graduate.
Age: 25
Education: 7th year bso
Years of experience: 6
Function: industrial service refrigeration engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): depends on the Hours i do but without overtime it is € 3205
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2562
Extra legal-advantages: phone, tablet, hospitalisation insurance for €10 month, 13th month pay, if we hit the numbers we get a €500 bonus, €11,1 everyday for coming to work and 12 extra payed vacation days (adv)
Location: geel
Sector/Industry: industrial refrigeration
Are you getting managing/content with your current income? I think for my age and my education i'm not gonna complain.
Age: 22
Education: ASO science and math
Years of experience: 1y and 2 months
Function: traffic controller for the railway
Monthly salary (before taxes): no idea
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2k to €2,6k
Extra legal-advantages: Meal cheques €5,5 a day, health and hospitalision insurance, €5,5 a day, free railway pass for the Benelux, - 2 free tickets for the thalys/eurostar and other various discounts
Location: hasselt, available in several cities
Sector/industry: transport, railroad
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: no
I'm happy with what I get paid but I doubt/hope the posts here are not indicative for the average salary. I make less then what I see here posted by people a lot younger than me.
I certain it isn't. For one, this subreddit tends to attract a certain demographic by it's own. I doubt there any many boomer ladies who work a simple desk job here or young immigrants that work in the art sector just to give an example, this sub seems to mostly attract relatively affluent young men who work in STEM or business-oriented fields.
Secondly as /u/Bitt3rSteel commented, this is just a bunch of people jacking themselves off as they brag about their cushy job. If you don't earn as much you'd be less likely to post as it can be experienced as somewhat humiliating.
Sportteacher age 39
2550€ after taxes
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Physical coach / tennis coach after school 1200€ after taxes
Invest my spare money in dividend stocks and REITS 400 € after taxes
3700 € + 400 € dividend after taxes in total.
Age: 28
Education: master business
Years of experience: 4
Function: advisor insurance
**Monthly salary (before taxes):**3500
**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2400
Extra legal-advantages: group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, food cheques, eco cheques, 13th month, Phone, laptop,
Location: West-Flanders
Sector/Industry: Insurance
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: saving 1000 eur per month for now
Age: 39
Education: TSO with 1 extra year of specialisation
Years of experience: 12
Function: process operator - bordfunctie - volcontinu shiften
Monthly salary (before taxes): 6500€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3350€
Extra legal-advantages: maaltijdcheques, medical and extra medical (ambulant/dental/optical) insurance, electric car, phone/tablet, pension plan
Location: port of Antwerp
Sector/Industry: chemistry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Very happy with this package.
Age: 45-50, male
Education: Bachelor (A1)
Years of experience: 17 (in this particular line of work), 25 years active on the job market
Function: Responsible for security
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5.450 (October 2022 - full time work regime)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3.270 (October 2022)
Extra legal-advantages: 13th month, personnel tariff on energy, mobile phone (due to being on call), internet, laptop, pensionfund, hospital insurance, MC's
Location: Flanders
Sector/Industry: Energy sector
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. Most of it is being invested in our home, renovating it over time (new roof, heating, windows etc) as it was built in the 70's. The pay is good, but I stay for the constant change, necessity to adapt and shift focus quickly when necessary. It gives me freedom to fill out my day as I see fit, but it works both ways, sometimes everything you planned to do gets thrown out because something else pops up.
Age: 32
Education: TSO STW, tried bachelor journalism, teacher and IT. Finished nothing
Years of experience: almost 8 years with current employer
Function: assistent (to the ;-)) manager
Monthly salary (before taxes): depends on targets the shop gets. Normally around 3350€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): bad month 2050€ , Good month 2400€
Extra legal-advantages: maaltijd cheques, 13th month en holiday money. If I earn to much with the targets, an amount goes in a ‘potteke’ every month. Potteke gets paid in january.
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: electronics retail
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, I think I have a nice income for the diploma I have. I do work longer days than most.
Age: 28
Education: bso + 7the year
Years of experience: 4
Function: Commercial/Logistics
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2209.96
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1845 (including 105 'net compensation) so my real net is 1740€
Extra legal-advantages: car + fuel + MC (7€/day) + eco cheques + bonus when company does 5% extra
Location: West-flanders
Sector/Industry: Natural Stone
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes (can always be more), we seem to survive, the GF earns more then me and we try to save 500€/month.currentyly getting a degree in distance learning for an geting myself an IT job
Age: 31
Education: bachelor accounting
Years of experience: 6
Function: supply chain analyst (or something like that)
Monthly salary (before taxes): €3500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2300 (including netto vergoeding €150)
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers €6, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, phone subscription, laptop, Company car with tankkaart
Location: limburg
Sector/Industry: production company
Are you getting managing/content with your current salary?: Yes and no . I still struggle some months to put away some savings due to high fixed costs ( loan, food, gas and electricity )
What's your salary? 2022 edition
**Age:**19
**Education:**finished TSO and did a specialization year in chemistry
**Years of experience:**0.5
**Function:**proces operator
**Monthly salary (before taxes):**4650
**Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary):**2900 (not including maaltijdcheques)
**Extra legal-advantages:**maaltijdcheques, health card, incurances,...
Sector/Industry: chemistry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am very pleased with my current income as i can live without worrying about not being able to pay something. That was the only thing i was worried about coming from a family that was in the upper lower class (poor but rich enough to just pay for everything). I can now buy all the luxury i want and wish for everyone to be able to do the same. :)
Age : 27
Education: University Master in Chemical Engineering (done in 6 years)
Years of experience: 3,25 in this position (+ 5 months of internship in a kind of similar position in a different company)
Function: Junior R&D project Engineer
Before tax : 3000€ (yearly indexed)
After taxes : 2150€
Advantages : meal vouchers, "eco" vouchers, group hospital insurance, company car, fuel paid, 12 RTT, flexibility in work schedules
Localisation : Mons
Sector : Environment/ Industrial wasteland management
Am I content? Well, yes, my girlfriend and I are becoming homeowners this year (but with financial and "workforce" help). Even though that and the energy crisis will put pressure on my budget I can't really complain. It's a good situation. On the other hand I feel a bit underpaid for my education and years of experience, even more regarding the current inflation.
You need to hop jobs a bit. Look around the job market place. Gauge your real value. Because I agree, your education suggests a higher salary.
I'm currently looking but it's hard to find a position in the fields I like (everything in the broad sustainable development, food or in R&D) . I already had a few propositions for interviews but was either not interesting or I hadn't the right profile (they were looking for or preferred bachelors to me). So hard to tell my value when they prefer the cheaper alternative (sorry for my fellow industrial engineers friends )
Just curious, because I have been thinking about my salary a lot. Is Belgium (housing, healthcare, food) way cheaper than the Low Lands? I can imagine this influences salary.
Age: 31
Education: Highschool (TSO)
Years of experience: 7 years current job (+1 year of a mix bag of other jobs)
Function: Factory worker
Monthly salary (before taxes): ~4000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): ~2500
Extra legal-advantages: Food stamps, profit sharing bonus, end of the year bonus, health insurance, MyBenefits, ADV days, seniority leave (getting my 10th day next year)
Location: Datwyler Alken
Sector/Industry: Pharmaceutical Factory
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yeah I'm content. I can pay off my bills and even in these crazy times manage. It's an oke job that comes with it's ups and downs (almost got my arm ripped off by a machine 2 weeks ago).
Age: 35
Education: high school - elektromechanics
Years of experience: 10
Function: furnace operator
Monthly salary (before taxes): varies between €4500 and €5000 depending on the shifts i’m working
Monthly salary (after taxes): varies between €2300 to €3000
Extra-legal advantages: maaltijdcheques
Location: Olen
Sector/Industry: metal
Age: 25 Éducation : Bachelors degree in Translation Gross Salary : 2500 +2500 (commission) Net salary : 3170 Years of experience: 3 months. First full time job Field: Finance (Sales Manager) I save approximatively 1500€ à Month month living at my parents
Age: 31
Education: TSO
Years of experience: 7
Function: IT Sales
Monthly salary (before taxes): €4800
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): € 2600
Extra legal-advantages: car, meal vouchers, phone subscription, health insurance, …
Location: BXL
Sector/Industry: IT infrastructure
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes
Age: 38
Education: Technical Secondary Education
Years of experience: 19
Function: Operator Set-up Department
Monthly salary (before taxes): €4500 (varies +- €200/month).
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2850
Extra legal-advantages: Ecocheques, maaltijdcheques, incentives, groepsverzekering
Location: Tielt, West-Flanders
Sector/Industry: Chemical industry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, with my wage and my wife's (€3000 net) we can live comfortably and don't have to wonder about things. And also no... For my wage I have to work early, late and night shifts. I have to work holidays and 'brugdagen'. And I have to work 2 out of 4 weekends. So nice wage, yes, but could/should be better. I have to miss out on alot of things and I feel that working shifts is weighing on me...
Age: 28
Education: Bachelor Marketing
Years of experience: 5 years
Function: HR Business Partner
Monthly salary (before taxes): €3500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2421
Extra legal-advantages: Car+fuel card, hospitalisation insurance, group insurance, meal vouchers (€7.72/day), phone allowance (€10/month), phone subscription, net allowance (€247), CAO Bonus (€1.8K net), yearly bonus in warrants (€7.3K gross), double vacay pay, 13th month,
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: IT consultancy
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: pretty happy. flexible work hours and there is still room to grow personally and salary wise.
Age: 29
Education: Master of Laws + Manama
Years of experience: 5,5 (3 in current employment)
Function: Legal advisor
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3230
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400-2500
Extra legal-advantages: 13 month, maaltijdcheques, ecocheques, bonus, groepsverzekering, hospitalisatieverzekering
Location: West Flanders
Sector/Industry: HR/Labour law
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, I can live comfortably so I can't complain
Age: 28
Education: Master
Years of experience: 4y
Function: Claims Handler
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4.300 EUR
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.700 EUR
Extra legal-advantages: Mealvouchers, ecocheques, group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, mobile phone, performance bonus.
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: Insurance
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 21
Education: 7th year chemical proces engineering
Years of experience: 1
Function: proces operator
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5220€
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3000€
Extra legal-advantages: Bike, car and ICT leasing. hospitalization, Dental and eyecare insurance, free private bus transport to site.
Location: Antwerp harbour
Sector/Industry: Chemistry
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes!
Age:
40
Education: ASO
and VDAB
cursussen
Years
of
experience:10
Function:
IT
Monthly salary
(before taxes):
2755.15
Monthly
salary (after taxes,
including additional
net salary):
1928.36
Extra
legal-advantages:
Maaltijdcheques,
mobile subscription
and employer
contribution for
internet at
home.
Location:
West
Flanders
Sector/Industry:
Local
government
Are
you getting
managing/content
with your current
income?: Pretty
happy so far,
certainly after
quite a lot of years
working in the
private sector.
Age: 27
Education: bachelor IT
Years of experience: 5
Function: datacommunication/network engineer in shifts
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4195 without shifts (with shifts 4800-6500 depending on amount of shifts)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2535 without shift work (including shift work 2800-3500 net)
Extra legal-advantages: only meal vouchers
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industryffffff: public transport
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes. I'm young and can do shift work easily. Not sure how it will work out with kids but that won't happen anytime soon. I could get a company car with slightly less pay in other jobs but prefer to drive what I like.
Age: 29
Education: PhD in STEM
Years of experience: 1.5 + 5 for PhD (does it count?)
Function: Data Scientist
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3700
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400
Extra legal-advantages: SNCB sub, meal vouchers, hospital insurance
Location: BrusselsSector/Industry: Space
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I like my job, my colleagues are nice, it's wayyy better than my PhD but I can't help but feel like I'm being ripped-off. I did receive offers from companies outside Belgium with much higher salaries (65k and 85k in much more expensive cities) but could not accept due to personal reasons.
PhDs in Belgium are not very highly valued. The anglosphere has a very different approach to them.
Age: 26
Education: master (MBA, Information Management)
Years of experience: First job ( did 3 internships in big companies)
Function: Data Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3500
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2100
Extra legal-advantages:
Location: BXL
Sector/Industry: Business analytics
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes
Age: 24
Education: Bachelor in science and extra bachelor in bio-informatics + some extra educations
Years of experience: 2
Function: Lab Technician in research facility linked to an university
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3000
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2050
Extra legal-advantages: bicycle allowance, bicycle allowance
Location: Ghent
Sector/Industry: Science (Research)
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes, Its for sure not a bad loan for my age, but the reason I am content is because I love what I do and know how lucky I was to work where I work now. Other companies can offer me a loan of 4000+ and I would still decline almost all of them.
Age: 27
Education: Masters in economy & IT
Years of experience: 4,5
Function: Project manager, Business analyst/architect, whatever is needed
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4,2 K
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2,45 K
Extra legal-advantages: Car, Internet, All types of vouchers, 2 laptops, printer, Hospital insurance, phone + data plan
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: IT at a port company
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Definitely, can't complain but its getting about time for the PC200 increase!
Age: 38
Education: BSO (High school)
Years of experience: 18
Function: Servicedesk Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): € 3216,02 + €300 - 500 from my bijberoep.
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): +/-€ 2380,83
Extra legal-advantages: Meal Vouchers, Group Insurance (Life, Death, Guaranteed income insurance), 40% Discount Zoo / Planckendael
Location: Antwerp
Sector/Industry: Healthcare / Education
Are you getting
managing/content
with your current
income?: Yes. We are
a family of 4. Both
adults have a stable
income. As mentioned
I have a side
activity
(administrative
guidance for
families) and my
wife (Full time
teacher) has a flexi
at a
restaurant.
We
are managing quite
well financially
thanks to
budgetting. Thank
you YNAB.
This
tool pays itself
tenfold each year.
Age: 26
Education: Master of Science / Industrial Engineer ICT & Electronics (with Professional Bachelor)
Years of experience: 3 years of working, ~7 of hobby programming
Function: Software Quality Engineer (Consultant)
Monthly salary (before taxes): €3050
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2270 (this includes €300 net allowance, we have no meal vouchers)
Extra legal-advantages: Teal company (self managing company), flexible "mobility budget" incl company car, net allowance, profit sharing, eco cheques, pension saving, very comprehensive healthcare, phone plan,
Location: Main office in Herentals, but everywhere in Flanders really.
Sector/Industry: IT, R&D
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Honestly, I should't have anything to complain about. But I'm paying of a steep mortgage (911€) alone, so the recent price increases of food & energy have me worried. I'm working on becoming better at budgeting, so it's easier to keep track.
PS: We are hiring. If you got a knack for software engineering and think you would fit in a self steering company, send me a DM, or contact us via our website. It's not hard to find if you do some cyber stalking.
Age: 24
Education: Bachelor Elektomechanica
Years of experience: 1,5
Function: Hardware Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2864
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2152
Extra legal-advantages: 13th month.Mobile phone, Laptop Pension Fund And if I need to go the customers I don’t need to use my private car and can use a company car.
Location: Maastricht ( The Netherlands)
Sector/Industry: Technology
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I think I don’t have anything complain about, The Netherlands are not a bad country to work in as a Belgian the only thing is that you need healthcare insurance that you will never use because if you are sick or anything you will always probably go to a Belgian doctor/hospital. Wage is more than okay I think. Would love a company car and maaltijdcheques but okay.
Age: 29
Education: Bachelor of Communication&Electronics engineering
Years of experience: 4 Years
Function: Software Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3380
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): Around 2500
Extra legal-advantages: Meal vouchers, Pension, Transportation paid, hospitalization insurance, group insurance, Laptop, mobile phone.
Location: Antwerpen
Sector/Industry: Defense
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:Not really because of my spending habits and high medical expenses i need to pay every month.
Age: 30
Education: Bachelor of Graphic Designer
Years of experience: 6
Function: Sales Consultant in a Drugstore (CP207 in Belgium)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3340
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2290
Extra legal-advantages: overtime because we are on a 4-days week (9H30 a day)
Location: Wallonia
Sector/Industry: CP 207 (Chemical industry). Nothing to do with my degree
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: No problem
Age: 25
Education: Bachelor in business management - Accountancy
Years of experience: 4
Function: Accountant
Monthly salary (before taxes): € 2.800
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): approx €2.100, net allowance included.Extra legal-advantages: company car, meal vouchers, eco vouchers once a year and phone subscription.
Location: Province of Antwerpen
Sector/Industry: Accounting sector (not Big Four)
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Am I managing with my current income? Sure. I try to keep my expenditures in check and rarely splurge on expensive stuff.
Am I content with my income? Not really, considering the amount of work and stress I deal with year round. Work-life balance is downright bad once you reach a certain level of responsibility. And if it isn't, it's probably because you're neglecting one deadline or another.
Working in accounting as an employee also means you're most likely stuck in one of the few paritair comités where wage indexation isn't required. So enjoy negotiating a raise every year just to keep your standard of living on the same level.
Age: 28
Education: Master
Years of experience: 3
Function: Data analyst
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5k
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2.9k
Extra legal-advantages: meal voucher, insurance
Location: Ghent
Sector/Industry: Chemical
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I am managing but “unhappy”. My peers earn twice as much and do much less. It seems this country discourages earning more unless you are happy with all your money going to the government (no thanks!)
Age: 34
Education: bachelors, masters, professional qualification
Years of experience: 12
Function: Actuary (Expert)
Monthly salary (before taxes): 6300 (pre January indexation)
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 3700
Extra legal-advantages: car, fuel card, meal vouchers, pension scheme, bonus (10%), internet, phone, insurance
Location: Brussels
Sector/Industry: insurance
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: yes. But could be more!
Age: 30
Education: TSO
Years of experience: 1 years
Function: Support
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3340
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2392
Extra legal-advantages: Company car, gas card, DKV insurance, 13th month
Location: Antwerpen
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: I can not complain
Age:
45
Education: IT
certs
Years of
experience: +20
years
Function:
IT Infrastructure
Manager
Monthly
salary (before
taxes):
5000
Monthly
salary (after taxes,
including additional
net salary):
3000
Extra
legal-advantages:
paid
internet at
home
phone +
phone
credit
company
car
laptop
meal
vouchers
eco
cheques
extra
expenses
Location:
Ghent
Sector/Industry:
IT
Are you
getting
managing/content
with your current
income?: all good
Age:
30
Education:
Communication
Science
Years of
experience:
8
Function:
Founder
Monthly
salary (before
taxes):
2900
Monthly
salary (after taxes,
including additional
net salary):
1900
Extra
legal-advantages:
Meal vouchers,
phone, laptop and of
course the profit of
the company if
applicable
Location:
Ghent,
Belgium
Sector/Industry:
Creative
industry
Are you
getting
managing/content
with your current
income?: Absolutely
Age: 32
Education: Bachelor IT
Years of experience: 10
Function: Full Stack/Cloud Developer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4100
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2400
Extra legal-advantages: Company car, Meal vouchers, hospital insurance, pension scheme, laptop
Location: Hasselt, Belgium
Sector/Industry: Tax/Accountancy ICT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: Yes
Age: 26
Education: two bachelor degrees
Years of experience: 2
Function: I teach English and Dutch in secondary school
Monthly salary (before taxes): €3053
Monthly salary: €2000
Extra legal-advantages: none
Location: West-Vlaanderen
Sector: education
Age: 25
Education: Professional Bachelor IT
Years of experience: 3
Function: Fullstack Developer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3300
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2050
Extra legal-advantages: Company car with fuel card, Laptop, Meal cheques (€8/day), Eco cheques, 13th month, 14th month, Benefits@Work, insurances
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: IT
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: In comparison with others in the thread I feel the difference between my bruto and netto salary is really high?
Wie doet de uitbetalingen, de werkgever zelf of extern bedrijf zoals SD Works?
Een extern bedrijf zoals SD Works helpt de werkgever een voordelig uitbetaling te regelen voor zijn werknemer, doormiddel van auteursrechten bv. Ik ken kleinere IT bedrijven die zulke zaken niet weten of doen.
Age: 41
Education: graduate degree (old system, so graduaat)
Years of experience: 14 yearsFunction: Network & Security Engineer
Monthly salary (before taxes): 5.130 when full time, but I'm, doing 4/5 at the moment, so 4.104. But I do standby duty which is about €6-700 per month
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): €2.932 (4/5 system, including the standby duty)
Extra legal-advantages: meal vouchers, netto onkostenvergoeding (140 euro), internet (40 euro), byod (5 euro). All together, with "wacht" + extra legal advantages €3.066 net in a 4/5 system.
Location: Limburg
Sector/Industry: Healthcare
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: It works. We're trying to keep the same standard of living as before we both did 4/5, got 2 kids the last 4 years,... So we feel the last year also.
Age: 22
Education: Professional Bachelor Accountancy fiscaliteit
Years of experience: Just started
Function: Bouwkundig tekenaar
Monthly salary (before taxes): 2400
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 1900
Extra legal-advantages: Hospitaliesatie, groepsverzekering, maaltijdcheques
Location: My village
Sector/Industry: Bouw
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?:
I guess it's decent wage for starters? I think the only thing that's holding me back is not pursuing more education or working at a bigger company with more room to grow. I do detest the big company culture and work culture surrounding it. And I can still study when I'm a bit older so not all hope is lost lmao
Age: 32
Education: professional bachelor
Years of experience: 11
Function: credit analyst
Monthly salary (before taxes): 4200
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2700 + maaltijdcheques
Extra legal-advantages: groepsverz, hospitalisatie , gewaarborgd inkomen (eerste jaar bij ziekte blijft volwaardig loon) , 13de maand, allerhande kortingen
Location: West Vlaanderen
Sector/Industry: bank
Are you getting managing/content with your current income : could be beter but is ok
Age: 32
Education: no higher education, just high school
Years of experience: 9 years
Function: Local IT
Monthly salary (before taxes): 3200
Monthly salary (after taxes, including additional net salary): 2100
Extra legal-advantages: car + fuel card, phone + subscription, internet, hospitalisatie & tandverzekering for me and the whole family, maaltijdcheques (8EUR), ecocheques (210EUR), 13de maand, vakantiegeld, Group insurance, Bonus system group insurance (2K a year), gewaarbord inkomen, onkostenvergoeding (75EUR), laptop; telework compensation
Location: Ghent
Sector/Industry: Healthcare Insurance
Are you getting managing/content with your current income?: No reason to complain
